Hewa
given name · Sinhala · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hewa is a given name, most frequently recorded in Sri Lanka, where it is the 38th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Sinhala and English, written in the Latin script.
- LKSri Lanka1 in 770◐
- SESweden1 in 103K
- DKDenmark1 in 652K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈118 ●
- Sources
- 43 ●
- 1 in 103K ◐
across 4 countries
1.0K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | #38 | 1,857 | 799 rec. | — | — | Hewa | 43 |
| SE Sweden | — | 99 | 0 rec. | 1 in 103K | 99 | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 67 | 107 rec. | — | — | Hewa | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 45 | 22 rec. | — | — | Hewa | 19 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 18 | 12 rec. | — | — | Hewa | 7 |
| IT Italy | — | 11 | 36 rec. | — | — | Hewa | 8 |
| DK Denmark | — | 9 | — | 1 in 652K | 9 | — | — |
| CN China | — | 9 | 0 rec. | — | — | Hewa | 5 |
| IN India | — | 8 | 0 rec. | — | 1 | Hewa | 4 |
| IQ Iraq | — | 8 | 4 rec. | — | — | Hewa | 9 |
| FI Finland | — | 7 | 0 rec. | 1 in 796K | 32 | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | 6 | 12 rec. | — | — | Hewa | 12 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Sinhala1.8K42%
- English66015%
- Arabic61714%
- 1293%
- Hindi1273%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Sinhala | 1,832 | 42% |
| English | 660 | 15% |
| Arabic | 617 | 14% |
| 129 | 3% | |
| Hindi | 127 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Hewa is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Kurdish, air, atmosphere
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Māori, mistaken
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hawaiian, mistake
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 17 |
| 2000 | 17 |
| 2001 | 16 |
| 2002 | 17 |
| 2003 | 18 |
| 2004 | 17 |
| 2005 | 19 |
| 2006 | 19 |
| 2007 | 22 |
| 2008 | 22 |
| 2009 | 22 |
| 2010 | 28 |
| 2011 | 31 |
| 2012 | 32 |
| 2013 | 33 |
| 2014 | 31 |
| 2015 | 30 |
| 2016 | 32 |
| 2017 | 35 |
| 2018 | 34 |
| 2019 | 35 |
| 2020 | 37 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Maria Ibeshi Hewab. 1950TZTanzanian politician
- Hasitha Chanakab. 1984LKnot in their usual namebadminton player
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 99 | #8,590 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 37 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 37 | #60,695 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 37 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 35 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 35 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 34 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 33 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 32 | #13,604 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 32 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 32 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 31 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 · 57 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hewa?
- We estimate roughly 118 people bear Hewa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Hewa have the most bearers?
- Hewa is most frequently recorded in Sri Lanka, where it is most often spelled hewa.
- How common is Hewa compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Hewa is the 38th most common given name of 11,905 given names recorded there.
- Is Hewa a male or female name?
- Hewa 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.
Query this name via API
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About this data
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, “Hewa” — the 38th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.