Anda

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: a bier or small platform, when carried by people (usually 4 or more individuals) to move a corpse or religious image

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/anda/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Anda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 44K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 488K
  • NONorway1 in 6.8K

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.

Romania (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,500 people, est.

Sources
233 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a bier or small platform, when carried by people (usually 4 or more individuals) to move a corpse or religious image

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

How Anda is read(measured from records)

Anda is one spelling over 2 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.

  • Spanish75%

    a bier or small platform, when carried by people (usually 4 or more individuals) to move a corpse or religious image

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English14%

    A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Anda 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 Anda is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RO Romania—≈2,500 est.≈1 in 8.4K—Anda20
PH Philippines—≈2,500 est.≈1 in 44K—Anda27
NO Norway—8081 in 6.8K808—11
US United States—6821 in 488K705Anda233
ES Spain—3671 in 136K367Anda69
CA Canada—≈310 est.≈1 in 123K—Anda21
SI Slovenia—≈26 est.≈1 in 82K21—2
MX Mexico#577——53Anda163

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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SURS — resident population given 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Anda is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Canada, Nigeria

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Andae, Andà, Andá, Ãñdã, Andā

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Ändå

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Andå

  • Norwegian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Philippines, Sweden

    Languages: Norwegian, Swedish, Danish

    Also written Añda, Ånda

  • Romanian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, Italy, Spain

    Also written Andą

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Cameroon

    Also written Ànda, Ändä, Ãndä

56 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Anda 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 tuw-pro, friend

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In xgn-pro, 1 friend 2 oath

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In Indonesian, alternative letter-case form of Anda (“you, your”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In nlg, pronoun: us, used after compound verbs such as _lavimbule_

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

188019001920194019601980Arne Anda, b. 1894Randi Anda, b. 1898Tibor Anda, b. 1910Géza Anda, b. 1921Torleiv Anda, b. 1921Gilberto Gazcón, b. 1929Carlos Martínez de Anda, b. 1949Béla Anda, b. 1963Hildegunn Anda, b. 1964Francisco Gabriel de Anda, b. 1971

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)

FormalEstimada Sra. Anda,Dear Ms Anda, (English)
InformalHola Anda,Hi Anda, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 70 sources across 36 countries.

Official registers attesting Anda
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—808#1,493
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020705#34,583
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010682#33,450
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000614#34,799
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025404—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—367#10,247
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—367#10,235
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—53#2,604

Reference works 8

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 Anda mean, and where does it come from?
a bier or small platform, when carried by people (usually 4 or more individuals) to move a corpse or religious image Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Anda have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Anda in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anda.
Where is Anda most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Anda is densest in Norway — about 1 in 6.8 thousand people — even though Romania holds more of our records for it.
How do you pronounce Anda?
A machine transcription gives /anda/ (IPA) for Spanish.
How common is the name Anda?
In Norway, the national register counted 808 people named Anda, about 1 in 6.8 thousand residents.
How common is Anda compared with other names?
In Mexico, Anda is the 577th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Anda” — the 577th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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