Tanwa
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tanwa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 302Kas Tanwar(measured from records)
- OMOman≈1 in 31Kas Tanwar
- KWKuwait≈1 in 36Kas Tanwar
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 Tanwa 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 187 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
4,395 named Tanwar
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Oman, est., as Tanwar
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Tanwar in IN India, KW Kuwait, SA Saudi Arabia and 4 more.
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 across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tanwa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 4,395as Tanwar | 1 in 302K | 4.4K | Tanwar | 187 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 254K | — | Tanwar | 13 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 159K | — | Tanwar | 16 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Tanwar | 22 |
| OM Oman | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Tanwar | 4 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Tanwar | 7 |
| BH Bahrain | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Tanwar | 4 |
| GY Guyana | 8as Dhanwa | 1 in 94K | 8 | — | — |
4,395 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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
- Is Tanwa a male or female name?
- Tanwa is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Tanwa have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Tanwar, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Tanwa?
- In India, the national register counted 4,395 people named Tanwar, about 1 in 302 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tanwaThe 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, “Tanwa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.