Âwa

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Âwa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SNSenegal≈1 in 186(inferred from the name graph)
  • MLMali≈1 in 3.5K
  • FRFrance≈1 in 17K

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.

Senegal (inferred from the name graph)

≈85,000 people, est.

Sources
217 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 186 (inferred from the name graph)

Senegal, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Awå in FR France.

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.

Sources 1

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Âwa 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.

Where Âwa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SN Senegal≈85,000 est.≈1 in 186122—49
ML Mali≈5,600 est.≈1 in 3.5K11—21
FR France≈4,000 est.≈1 in 17K4KAwå217
US United States1,4691 in 226K1.4K—101
ES Spain1,1701 in 43K1.2K—32
SE Sweden3891 in 26K389—17
GA Gabon≈82 est.≈1 in 27K4—9

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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Âwa under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Âwa a male or female name?
Âwa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Âwa have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 85 thousand people named Âwa in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Âwa?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,469 people named Âwa in 2020, about 1 in 226 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A2wa

The 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, “Âwa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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