Towa
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Japanese: Rōmaji transcription of とは
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries
/tuːva/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated
Towa is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 30K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 1.1M
- PLPoland1 in 19M
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
339 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Rōmaji transcription of とは
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Towa is read
(measured from records)Towa is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Japanese54%
Rōmaji transcription of とは
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English17%
Synonym of Jemez (“Tanoan language”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swedish11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Towa in Swedish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Towa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | 339 | 1 in 30K | 339 | Towa | 25 |
| FI Finland | 5 | 1 in 1.1M | 20 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | — | 8 | — | — |
| PG Papua New Guinea | — | — | 5 | — | — |
339 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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)Towa is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In men, a kind of monkey
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In men, Yoniba-gboli
as a wordMende Natural History Vocabulary
In men, pumpkin
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Towa Uzawab. 2002Japanese sprinter (born 2002)
- Towa ShiraishiJPJapanese AV actress
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022) | — | 5 | #31 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Towa mean, and where does it come from?
- Rōmaji transcription of とは Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Towa?
- In Swedish /tuːva/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Towa a male or female name?
- Towa 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 Towa have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 339 people named Towa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled towa.
- Where is Towa most common?
- Towa is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 30 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Towa?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 339 people named Towa, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Towa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/towaThe 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, “Towa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.