Sawaeng
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sawaeng is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country, where it is the 22nd most common surname.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 596as Awang(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 11Kas Awang
- THThailand≈1 in 57Kas สว่าง
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 Sawaeng 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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 558 (inferred from the name graph)
≈55,000 named Awang, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brunei, est., as Awang
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
17 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Awang in MY Malaysia, ID Indonesia, PH Philippines and 2 more and แสวง in TH Thailand.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sawaeng 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #22 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 596 | — | Awang | 99 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Awang | 106 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 57K | #174,685 | แสวง | 70 |
| BN Brunei | #8 | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 558 | — | Awang | 24 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Awang | 14 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Awang | 27 |
| NO Norway | — | 130as Svang | 1 in 42K | 130 | — | 2 |
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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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
- Is Sawaeng a male or female name?
- Sawaeng is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Sawaeng have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 55 thousand people named Awang in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sawaeng?
- In Norway, the national register counted 130 people named Svang, about 1 in 42 thousand residents.
- How common is Sawaeng compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Sawaeng is the 22nd most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sawaeng?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sawaengThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Sawaeng” — the 22nd most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.