Uwase
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Uwase is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United States. In Rwanda it is the 59th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script.
- RWRwanda1 in 2K◐
- NONorway1 in 94K
- FIFinland1 in 139K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈270 ●
- Sources
- 62 ●
- 1 in 94K ◐
across 8 countries
528 records
Official registry-verified
Norway
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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 202 | 210 rec. | — | 11 | Uwase | 62 |
| RW Rwanda | #59 | 82 | 98 rec. | — | 5.4K | Uwase | 21 |
| BE Belgium | — | 62 | 48 rec. | 1 in 189K | 62 | Uwase | 16 |
| NO Norway | — | 58△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 94K | 58 | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | — | 50△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 204K | 50 | Uwase | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 43 | 35 rec. | — | — | Uwase | 18 |
| FI Finland | — | 40 | — | 1 in 139K | 40 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 38 | — | 1 in 1M | 38 | — | — |
| AU Australia | — | 25 | 34 rec. | — | — | Uwase | 8 |
| CA Canada | — | 24 | 24 rec. | — | — | Uwase | 16 |
| DK Denmark | — | 14 | — | 1 in 419K | 14 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 14 | 11 rec. | — | — | Uwase | 6 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English43322%
- French41821%
- Swahili25813%
- Kinyarwanda18910%
- Polish1548%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 433 | 22% |
| French | 418 | 21% |
| Swahili | 258 | 13% |
| Kinyarwanda | 189 | 10% |
| Polish | 154 | 8% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2021 | 9 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2024 | 7 |
| 2025 | 11 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 6 years between 2019–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Nyandwi Uwaseb. 1983RWRwandian cyclist
- Fred Yannick Uwaseb. 1994RWRwandan judoka
- Lidwine Umuhoza Uwaseb. 1999RWRwandan swimmer
- Dominique AlongaRWnot in their usual nameRwandan writer
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 15 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RW Rwanda | NISR Rwanda Vital Statistics / CRVS — top-20 baby given names by sex | 2025 | 5.4K | #3 |
| RW Rwanda | NISR Rwanda Vital Statistics / CRVS — top-20 baby given names by sex | 2024 | 4.6K | #2 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 62 | #22,372 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 58 | #23,750 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 50 | #12,614 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 40 | #32,966 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 38 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 38 | #60,775 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 34 | #14,444 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 21 | #18,539 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #30,249 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 15 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 · 26 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Uwase?
- We estimate roughly 270 people bear Uwase (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Uwase have the most bearers?
- Uwase is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled uwase.
- How common is Uwase compared with other names?
- In Rwanda, Uwase is the 59th most common surname of 2,695 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Uwase” — the 59th most common surname in Rwanda. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.