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Awa

#4,776 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Hawwa

Awa has been given to 871 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #4,776 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 44 recorded.

Babies named Awa, 2025

1 in 118,000

Awa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Awa: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Hawwa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Awa means

Awa is a form of Hawwa.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hawwa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 871 girls were recorded with the name Awa between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 44 in 2005; its best national rank was #3,406 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,771 in 2020 to #4,776 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,150 in 2015 to #4,776 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 Awa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 118,000
28 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 57,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,776
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
82,069 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Awa 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Awa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Awas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Awa was born before 2010 — so the typical Awa is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
871
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 36.3% of all recorded uses (316).

Is Awa 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
+545
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+374
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.08×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
63.6%
Peak was 2005 (44)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,406
2005

Where Awa is used

Across 1910–2025, Awa was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 126,851 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 50,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3Maryland1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

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. Awa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Awa around the world

Where Awa 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
    2000–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    1963–2025
    #304
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #796
    in 2008

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

Awa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,776
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5
Best rank ever
#3,406
2005
Peak year
2005
44 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
871
Count in 2025
28

Names similar to Awa

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

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Sibling names for Awa

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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