Sowah
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/sowah/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Sowah is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 255 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- FIFinland1 in 186K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 391K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 186K (inferred from the name graph)
255 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Sowah
- Swahili:/sowah/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
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 Sowah is found
(measured from records)Sowah 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 255 | 1 in 1.3M | 362 | Sowah | 15 |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 14 | 1 in 391K | 14 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 11 | 1 in 1.6M | 11 | — | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 7 | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
255 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Della Sowahb. 1959GHGhanaian politician and member of parliament
- Ernest Sowahb. 1988GHGhanaian footballer
- Lennard Sowahb. 1992DEGerman footballer
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Sowah?
- In Swahili /sowah/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sowah?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 255 people named Sowah, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sowah. After it come Finland, Norway, Netherlands and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Sowah most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sowah is densest in Finland — about 1 in 186 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sowah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 255 people named Sowah in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Sowah?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sowahThe 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, “Sowah” — ranked 60172nd in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.