Ruwa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Belleza
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɾuwa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ruwa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country.
- KEKenya≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZWZimbabwe≈1 in 29K
- TZTanzania≈1 in 122K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ruwa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 47 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Kenya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is 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(measured from records)
Belleza
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ruwa 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.
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Ruwa is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In tuf, edible animal, meat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hausa, water
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ruwa mean, and where does it come from?
- Belleza Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- How do you pronounce Ruwa?
- A machine transcription gives /ɾuwa/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Ruwa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.5 thousand people named Ruwa in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ruwa.
- How common is the name Ruwa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 39 people named Ruva, about 1 in 5.4 million residents.
- How common is Ruwa compared with other names?
- In Kenya, Ruwa is the 662nd most common surname of 179,147 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ruwa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ruwaThe 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, “Ruwa” — the 662nd most common surname in Kenya. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.