Dewa
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries
/dɛwa/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Dewa is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 5K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 110Kfew records
- SESweden1 in 464K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 158 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈54,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dewa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #461 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | listed | Dewa | 158 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Dewa | 20 |
| JP Japan | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | listed | — | — |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Dewa | 2 |
| US United States | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 6M | 5 | Dewa | 43 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Dewa | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 25 | 1 in 691K | 18 | — | 6 |
| SE Sweden | — | 22 | 1 in 464K | 22 | — | 1 |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the japanese-names-oneill-1972 register. 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)Dewa is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, An ancient province of Japan.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, god (male deity)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malay, god (deity)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, deva (one of the benevolent deities involved in constant conflict with the more power-seeking Asuras)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of では
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Maltese, to sound, to ring, to echo
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2 | #74,792 |
| JP Japan | Japanese Names (O'Neill, 1972) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- How do you pronounce Dewa?
- In Indonesian /dɛwa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Dewa a male or female name?
- Dewa is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Dewa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 54 thousand people named Dewa in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dewa.
- How common is the name Dewa?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 25 people named Dewa, about 1 in 691 thousand residents.
- How common is Dewa compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Dewa is the 461st most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dewa?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dewaThe 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, “Dewa” — the 461st most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.