Hawa

What Hawa means

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

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #275 vs #1,808 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Hawa?

US: Rising: up from #2169 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #625 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 125 girls got the name (#1648 that year). First in the US records in 1978.

How common

• About 1 in 14,480 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,535 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 5,964 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 MD (0.25 per 1,000 girls), MN (0.23 per 1,000 girls), NY (0.22 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Hawa is #1808 in the US and #275 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 Hawa were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Hawwa13 US · 98 E&W
• Hawaa0 US · 21 E&W
• Hawi7 US
• Hauwa0 US · 4 E&W
• Haawa0 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 Hawa

Girls

• Selah#216“to hang”^*
• Emersyn#138Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #138 vs #3,705 in 2025
• Elianna#218Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #598 in 2015, #218 in 2025
• Elliana#139Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #301 in 2015, #139 in 2025
• Lilah#179Editor’s note Up from #314 in 2015 to #179 in 2025 in the US
• Ellie#24Editor’s note Up from #48 in 2015 to #24 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US girls in the 2025 records

For a brother

• Ronan#247Irish, meaning “little seal”^*
• Micah#90“who is like Yahweh”^*
• Emiliano#94Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #94 vs #1,359 in 2025
• Finn#206“the Sami”^*
• Jett#169Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #169 vs #452 in 2025
• Kai#93“warrior”^*

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 Hawa’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.