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Arwa

#1,944 in 2025Girls' name

Female ibex, mountain goat

Arwa has been given to 1,401 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #1,944 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 99 recorded.

Babies named Arwa, 2025

1 in 33,500

Arwa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arwa: meaning, origin, and history

Female ibex, mountain goat

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arwa means

Arwa means “female ibex, mountain goat”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,401 girls were recorded with the name Arwa between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 99 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,944 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,065 in 2020 to #1,944 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,486 in 2015 to #1,944 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Arwa?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 33,500
99 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 16,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,944
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
23,212 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arwa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 23,212 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arwa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arwas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arwa was born before 2016 — so the typical Arwa is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
34.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,401
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 34.4% of all recorded uses (482).

Is Arwa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+235
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,121
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,542
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (99)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,944
2025

Spellings of Arwa

Arwa is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 21.7% against Arwa's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Arwa is used

Across 2016–2025, Arwa was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 21,746 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in 100,000).

113 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 7,692
  2. 2New York1 in 10,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 16,667
  4. 4Connecticut1 in 25,000
  5. 5Minnesota1 in 25,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 25,000
  7. 7California1 in 33,333
  8. 8Ohio1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Arwa around the world

Where Arwa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #325
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2011–2025
    #429
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2000–2024
    #898
    in 2024
  • France
    1982–2025
    #1,052
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2024
    #708
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1998–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Arwa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,944
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,121
Best rank ever
#1,944
2025
Peak year
2025
99 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,401
Count in 2025
99

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Arwa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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