Tuah
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Malay: luck; fortune
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tuah is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country. In Brunei it is the 13th most common surname.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- BNBrunei≈1 in 1.3K
- GHGhana≈1 in 63K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Brunei, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The sound of spitting.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Tuah is read(measured from records)
Tuah 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.
- Malay59%
luck; fortune
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
magical power
as a wordrecorded as Indonesiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English26%
The sound of spitting.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Chinese6.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tuah in Chinese.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Tuah 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 | #711 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Tuah | 38 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 130K | — | Tuah | 61 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Tuah | 18 |
| BN Brunei | #13 | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Tuah | 10 |
| US United States | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 9.6M | listed | Tuah | 48 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 264K | — | Tuah | 10 |
| ES Spain | — | 15 | 1 in 3.3M | 15 | — | 7 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Tuah 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 btx, blessing, prosperity, luck (compared to _mana_ in the Pacific)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In nij, luck, advantage
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In gay, luck
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 15 | #97,717 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Tuah come from?
- The sound of spitting. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Tuah mean?
- In Malay, luck; fortune
- In which country does Tuah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Tuah in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tuah.
- How common is the name Tuah?
- In Spain, the national register counted 15 people named Tuah, about 1 in 3.3 million residents.
- How common is Tuah compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Tuah is the 711th most common surname of 291,743 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tuah?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tuahThe 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, “Tuah” — the 711th most common surname in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.