Wadhwa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Punjabi
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wɑdhwɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wadhwa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 81K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 378K
- INIndia1 in 383K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 243 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 53K (inferred from the name graph)
3,461 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
A surname from Punjabi.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wadhwa 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 | 3,461 | 1 in 383K | 3.5K | Wadhwa | 193 |
| US United States | 879 | 1 in 378K | 1.3K | Wadhwa | 243 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Wadhwa | 8 |
| AU Australia | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Wadhwa | 76 |
| CA Canada | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Wadhwa | 61 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Wadhwa | 35 |
| SG Singapore | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Wadhwa | 23 |
| OM Oman | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Wadhwa | 7 |
3,461 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
- Shashi Wadhwab. 1948INIndian scientist
- Anil Wadhwab. 1957INIndian civil servant
- Silvia Wadhwab. 1959DEGerman journalist
- Hitendra Wadhwab. 1967INentrepreneur, educator and speaker
- Meenakshi Wadhwab. 1968INIndian American planetary scientist
- Jasmine Wadhwab. 1974CAbadminton player
- Deepak Wadhwab. 1987INIndian model and television actor
- Vaibhav WadhwaINresearcher
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)
Attested in 21 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6.3K | #189 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 3.5K | #2,056 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,911 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 879 | #27,435 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 491 | #41,722 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Wadhwa mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Punjabi. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Wadhwa?
- A machine transcription gives /wɑdhwɑ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Wadhwa have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Wadhwa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wadhwa.
- How common is the name Wadhwa?
- In India, the national register counted 3,461 people named Wadhwa, about 1 in 383 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wadhwaThe 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, “Wadhwa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.