Shwe

given name · Burmese · Latin script

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

Shwe is a given name, most frequently recorded in Thailand. In Myanmar (Burma) it is the 35th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Burmese and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • MMMyanmar (Burma)1 in 6.7K◐
  • THThailand1 in 7.8K
  • USUnited States1 in 66K

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

≈5.3K ●

across 8 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
95 ●

13K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 66K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

ShweLatin · Burmese●6.1K records
จอยThai · Thai●2.2K records

10 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Choi in NL Netherlands, HK Hong Kong, PH Philippines and 2 more, Soy in IN India, LA Laos, ชอย in KR South Korea and จอย in TH Thailand.

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.

Where in the world●

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

Where Shwe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TH Thailand—9,6236K rec.—#93,119จอย86
US United States—5,0032.7K rec.1 in 66K53KShwe95
MM Myanmar (Burma)#354,5221.4K rec.—listedShwe81
MY Malaysia—780369 rec.——Shwe17
IN India—517342 rec.—20KSoy11
SG Singapore—474703 rec.——Shwe30
LA Laos—24630 rec.——Soy6
BR Brazil—240—1 in 882K636——
KR South Korea—129176 rec.—19Kชอย2
HK Hong Kong—127154 rec.——Choi16
ID Indonesia—89150 rec.—listedShwe4
GB United Kingdom—81102 rec.—listedShwe18

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

Languages●

  • Burmese6.1K68%
  • English1.1K12%
  • Thai6687%
  • Indonesian1472%
  • Japanese1392%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Burmese6,11568%
English1,06512%
Thai6687%
Indonesian1472%
Japanese1392%

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◐

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

  • English given name2.9K records spelled Shwe5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Shwé, Šhwê

  • Arabic given name68 records spelled Shwe3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Arab Emirates, Egypt

    Also written Shwé, Șĥwê

35 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.

Notable people with this name●

190019201940196019802000Aung Shwe, b. 1918Yoshiyuki Sakaki, b. 1942Hiroyuki Sakaki, b. 1944Tsukasa Sakaki, b. 1969Hideo Sakaki, b. 1970Michito Sakaki, b. 1983Nami Sakaki, b. 1985Aya Sakaki, b. 1985Anna Sakaki, b. 1986Shota Sakaki, b. 1993
  • Aung Shweb. 1918MMBurmese politician (1918–2017)
  • Yoshiyuki Sakakib. 1942JPnot in their usual nameJapanese molecular biologist
  • Hiroyuki Sakakib. 1944JPnot in their usual nameJapanese physics professor
  • Tsukasa Sakakib. 1969JPnot in their usual nameJapanese novelist
  • Hideo Sakakib. 1970JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actor
  • Michito Sakakib. 1983JPnot in their usual nameJapanese Australian rules footballer
  • Nami Sakakib. 1985JPnot in their usual nameJapanese announcer
  • Aya Sakakib. 1985JPnot in their usual nameJapanese AV idol
  • Anna Sakakib. 1986JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actress
  • Shota Sakakib. 1993JPnot in their usual nameJapanese association football 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 17 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Shwe
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020761#32,405
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010383#53,913
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020280#20,433
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020226#20,433
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000120#130,443
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—74#19,936
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—67#7,007
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—64#23,422
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#16,556
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—30—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—13#31,868
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—12#23,278

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 · 21 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Shwe?
We estimate roughly 5.3 thousand people bear Shwe (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Shwe have the most bearers?
Shwe is most frequently recorded in Thailand, where it is most often spelled จอย.
How common is Shwe compared with other names?
In Myanmar (Burma), Shwe is the 35th most common given name of 9,034 given names recorded there.
Is Shwe a male or female name?
Shwe 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.
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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, “Shwe” — the 35th most common given name in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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