Woda
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Woda is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: water (clear liquid essential for life).
- USUnited States
- PLPoland
- IDIndonesia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
water (clear liquid essential for life)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Woda is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In dsb, superseded spelling of wóda
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, crazy person, madman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tpi, warder
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hsb, water
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Janusz Wodab. 1938PLPolish chess player
- Wiesław Wodab. 1946PLPolish politician (1946-2010)
- Albert Wodab. 1955FRFrench painter
- Jacek Wodab. 1965PLPolish chess player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 363 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 363 | #8,962 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 304 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 304 | #10,964 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 226 | #78,549 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 224 | #83,834 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 216 | #91,558 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 20 | #90,540 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 17 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #4,195 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #167,010 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Woda mean, and where does it come from?
- water (clear liquid essential for life) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Woda have the most bearers?
- Woda is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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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, “Woda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.