Patwa
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Patwa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 241K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 241K (inferred from the name graph)
5,492 people
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Patwa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 5,492 | 1 in 241K | 5.5K | Patwa | 9 |
| US United States | 224 | 1 in 1.5M | 289 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 4 | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
5,492 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Patwa is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, Passive form of -pata: to be gotten, to be caught
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In jam, The basilectal form of Jamaican Creole; Patwa.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Any of the genus Cichlasoma of fishes.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Karim Patwab. 1968CHSwiss film director
- Cristina PatwaUSbusinessperson
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 5.5K | #1,467 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 441 | #1,303 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 289 | #72,473 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 224 | #83,834 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 121 | #129,619 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #119,814 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #371,290 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #624 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Patwa have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 5.5 thousand people named Patwa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled patwa.
- Where is Patwa most common?
- Patwa is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 241 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Patwa?
- In India, the national register counted 5,492 people named Patwa, about 1 in 241 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/patwaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Patwa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.