Sabawa
surname · Latin script
Sabawa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 45Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 911Kas Zabava
- ESSpain1 in 1.2Mas Zabava
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 Sabawa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 207K (inferred from the name graph)
≈77 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Sabawa in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)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 the surname Sabawa is found
(measured from records)Sabawa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Sabawa | 4 |
| PL Poland | 42as Zabava | 1 in 911K | 26 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 41as Zabava | 1 in 1.2M | 41 | — | 1 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 9.3M | — | Sabawa | 3 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Sabawa | 2 |
| GY Guyana | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 207K | — | Sabawa | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 4as Zabava | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sabawa?
- Mondonomo estimates about 77 people named Sabawa in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sabawa. After it come Poland, Spain, Nigeria and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sabawa?
- In Poland, the national register counted 42 people named Zabava in 2026, about 1 in 911 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sabawa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sabawaThe 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, “Sabawa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.