Wadson
given name · Portuguese · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wadson is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Haiti it is the 21st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and English, written in the Latin script.
- BRBrazil1 in 55K◐
- HTHaiti1 in 4.2K
- DODominican Republic1 in 59K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.0K ●
- Sources
- 75 ●
- 1 in 55K ◐
across 3 countries
6.2K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 3,844 | 4.4K rec. | 1 in 55K | 3.8K | Wadson | 75 |
| US United States | — | 171 | 1.1K rec. | 1 in 1.9M | 171 | Wadson | 68 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #930 | 168 | 204 rec. | — | — | Wadson | 6 |
| CL Chile | — | 76 | 81 rec. | — | 1 | Wadson | 9 |
| PE Peru | — | 61 | 51 rec. | — | — | Wadson | 15 |
| HT Haiti | #21 | 40 | 50 rec. | — | — | Wadson | 13 |
| PT Portugal | — | 18 | 11 rec. | — | — | Wadson | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 17 | 42 rec. | — | — | Wadson | 9 |
| AR Argentina | — | 10 | 10 rec. | — | — | Wadson | 4 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 10 | 17 rec. | — | — | Wadson | 4 |
| IT Italy | — | 9 | 17 rec. | — | — | Wadson | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | 8 | 33 rec. | — | — | Wadson | 15 |
Roughly 3.8K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 55K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Portuguese54K91%
- English4.5K8%
- Spanish3981%
- French861%
- ptbr391%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Portuguese | 54,333 | 91% |
| English | 4,500 | 8% |
| Spanish | 398 | 1% |
| French | 86 | 1% |
| ptbr | 39 | 1% |
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 |
|---|---|
| 1950 | 2 |
| 1960 | 47 |
| 1970 | 180 |
| 1980 | 547 |
| 1990 | 1,371 |
| 2000 | 2,433 |
| 2010 | 3,330 |
| 2020 | 3,754 |
| 2022 | 3,844 |
BR IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) — 9 years between 1950–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 3.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3.8K | #3,282 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 3.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 3.6K | #4,117 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 3.6K | #1,546 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 3.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 2.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 1.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 1.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 897 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1980 | 824 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 547 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 30 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Wadson?
- We estimate roughly 4.0 thousand people bear Wadson (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Wadson have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 3.8 thousand people bear Wadson in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled wadson.
- How common is Wadson compared with other names?
- In Haiti, Wadson is the 21st most common given name of 608 given names recorded there.
- Is Wadson a male or female name?
- Wadson 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.
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, “Wadson” — the 21st most common given name in Haiti. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.