Arwa

What Arwa means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Arwa yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1975, with 5 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Arwa?

US: Rising: up from #3478 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #965 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 99 girls got the name (#1942 that year). First in the US records in 1975.

How common

• About 1 in 16,235 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,904 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,556 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in IL (0.25 per 1,000 girls), MN (0.23 per 1,000 girls), MI (0.17 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Arwa is #1942 in the US and #325 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Arwa were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Arwaa6 US · 8 E&W
• Urwa5 US · 9 E&W
• Arwah0 US · 5 E&W
• Urwah0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Arwa

Girls

• Millie#73Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #469 in 2015, #73 in 2025
• Eleanor#12possibly “other”^*
• Aurora#15Italian, from Latin Aurōra, meaning “dawn, sunrise”^*
• Nova#46“new”^*
• Leia#297Editor’s note Up from #420 in 2015 to #297 in 2025 in the US
• Eloise#49Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #254 in 2015, #49 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel

For a brother

• Bennett#40Form of Benedict, meaning “blessed, well spoken of”^*
• Hayes#162“brushwood”^*
• Elias#13Form of Elijah, meaning “Yahweh is my god”^*
• Callan#190“descendant of Cathalán”^*
• Ezra#20Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #93 in 2015, #20 in 2025. Short and simple: 4 letters
• Jasper#129Editor’s note Up from #214 in 2015 to #129 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 610 US boys in the 2025 records

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Arwa’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.