Riwa

loc · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Riwa is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Poland.

Poland (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
34 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

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)

Riwa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Riwa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland—12——
AR Argentina—3——
CA Canada—1—11
BE Belgium—1—3
EE Estonia—listed——
DE Germany—1——

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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register; the de-leipzig-vornamen register. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Riwa is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Rîwa

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Rìwã

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Riwa 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 bug, take on the lap

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In mak, to lap:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In pdt, river

    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)

1910192019301940Riwa Mirski, b. 1916Riwa Salman, b. 1932Riwa Miller, b. 1933

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 8 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Riwa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—12#6,225
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202612#6,226
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror)19473—
CA CanadaAlberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender20241#2,418
DE GermanyStadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene20171—
EE EstoniaSiseministeerium — population register name list 20232023——

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

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Riwa is most frequently recorded in Poland.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/riwa

The 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, “Riwa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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