Dwi

given name · Indonesian · Latin script

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

Dwi is a given name, most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is the 35th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Indonesian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Malay dwi, from Sanskrit द्वि (dvi), from द्व (dvá), from Proto-Indo-European *dwó, *dwóh₁.

rarermore common
  • IDIndonesia1 in 253
  • SGSingapore1 in 4.9K
  • MYMalaysia1 in 15K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈81

across 5 countries

Sources
241

72K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 364K

Sweden

Meaning & origin

Derivation of Dwi: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Dwi
  1. Malaydwi
  2. Sanskritद्विdvi
  3. Proto-Indo-European*dwó

From Malay dwi, from Sanskrit द्वि (dvi), from द्व (dvá), from Proto-Indo-European *dwó, *dwóh₁.

Sources 1

Where in the world

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Dwi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia#35359,27767K rec.listedDwi241
MY Malaysia4,3781.3K rec.Dwi31
SG Singapore#2812,2141.2K rec.Dwi29
PH Philippines1,660474 rec.Dwi10
US United States970675 rec.Dwi86
RU Russia67317 rec.Dwi11
VN Vietnam308469 rec.Dwi7
TM Turkmenistan229456 rec.Dwi1
HK Hong Kong#755190280 rec.Dwi8
GB United Kingdom11472 rec.Dwi24
TR Türkiye95112 rec.Dwi8
PL Poland291 in 1.3M29

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages

  • Indonesian369K99%
  • English1.7K1%
  • Chinese3571%
  • Malay3421%
  • Vietnamese3361%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Indonesian369,17199%
English1,6611%
Chinese3571%
Malay3421%
Vietnamese3361%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way

Dwi is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name5.6K records spelled Dwi5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Australia, United States, Malaysia, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ďwî

  • Arabic given name655 records spelled Dwi4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Türkiye, United Arab Emirates

    Also written Ďwi, Dwį

46 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

Dwi is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Welsh, contraction of dw i (“I am”)

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

  • In English, Initialism of driving while impaired.

    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

19401960198020002020Dwi Listyo Rahayu, b. 1957Agus Dwi Santoso, b. 1965Sony Dwi Kuncoro, b. 1984Dwi Agustiawati, b. 1989Oddie Listyanto Putra, b. 1996Chico Aura Dwi Wardoyo, b. 1998Asty Dwi Widyaningrum, b. 1999Galuh Dwi Putra, b. 2003Dicky Dwi Pangestu, b. 2004Rizki Dwi Cahyo, b. 2006

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

Attested in 14 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Dwi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)30#15,950
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)30#14,789
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202629#1,708
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)28#20,211
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)25#5,088
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls20#11,238
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)17#12,967
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls11#2,575
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)10#24,732
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)8#25,660
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20266#4,053
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)6#10,951

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 18 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dwi?
We estimate roughly 81 people bear Dwi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Dwi have the most bearers?
Dwi is most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is most often spelled dwi.
How common is Dwi compared with other names?
In Indonesia, Dwi is the 35th most common given name of 232,466 given names recorded there.
Is Dwi a male or female name?
Dwi 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.
What does the name Dwi mean?
Recorded meaning: From Malay dwi, from Sanskrit द्वि (dvi), from द्व (dvá), from Proto-Indo-European *dwó, *dwóh₁.
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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Dwi” — the 35th most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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