Uda
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/udə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Uda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 715Kas Wood(measured from records)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 63K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 84K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Uda itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 63K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, 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 Wood in US United States, BD Bangladesh.
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
Where in the world(measured from records)
Uda 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 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Uda | 65 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Uda | 24 |
| US United States | 465as Wood | 1 in 715K | 251K | Wood | 103 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Wood | 14 |
| BR Brazil | 141 | 1 in 1.5M | 181 | — | — |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA). 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)
Uda 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 Russian, Ivan Andreevich Uda, governor. 1401.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Welsh, initialism of Unol Daleithiau America (“United States of America”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, acronym of Union des artistes (literally “Union of Artists”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, summer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In klw, rain
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, definite nominative/accusative feminine singular of ud
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)
- Uda Hellerb. 1951DEGerman politician
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 33 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 165 | #107,669 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 164 | #113,565 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 163 | #102,173 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Is Uda a male or female name?
- Uda is a male 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.
- How do you pronounce Uda?
- A machine transcription gives /udə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Uda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 thousand people named Uda in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled uda.
- How common is the name Uda?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 141 people named Uda in 2022, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Uda?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/udaThe 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, “Uda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.