Swahili Girl Names
Names documented in Swahili include local vocabulary names and names shared with Arabic and other naming traditions. The collection balances recognizable names with less-used choices. The figures describe these spellings in U.S. records; they are not rankings in the source language’s home countries.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1919. | 931#330 | Up 12 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1970. | 512#579 | Down 57 rank positions in five years | 1998 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1950. | 910#337 | Up 199 rank positions in five years | 1977 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1951. | 403#702 | Down 207 rank positions in five years | 2000 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1971. | 932#329 | Down 94 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1969. | 419#678 | Down 19 rank positions in five years | 2008 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1963. | 160#1,373 | Up 89 rank positions in five years | 2000 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1962. | 122#1,686 | Up 71 rank positions in five years | 1977 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1965. | 258#982 | Up 286 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1973. | 168#1,333 | Up 547 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1968. | 78#2,344 | Up 358 rank positions in five years | 2006 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1970. | 102#1,902 | Up 27 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1990. | 82#2,253 | Up 268 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1978. | 11#9,048 | Down 1,723 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1963. | 13#8,131 | Up 2,621 rank positions in five years | 1990 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1972. | 31#4,522 | Down 5 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1991. | 21#5,784 | Up 1,542 rank positions in five years | 2013 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1971. | 8#11,362 | Down 3,199 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1998. | 12#8,846 | Down 3,004 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1995. | 16#7,068 | Up 7,675 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1970. | —Unranked | — | 1995 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1969. | —Unranked | — | 1993 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1975. | 8#11,087 | Up 157 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1974. | 5#16,835 | Up 253 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 2021. | 10#9,891 | new | 2025 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1974. | —Unranked | — | 1977 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 1999. | 5#16,410 | new | 1999 | ||
Recorded in Swahili; in U.S. records from 2025. | 6#14,756 | new | 2025 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.