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Hawa

#1,813 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Hawwa

Hawa has been given to 2,373 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #1,813 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 125 recorded.

Babies named Hawa, 2025

1 in 29,900

Hawa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hawa: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Hawwa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hawa means

Hawa is a alternate transcription of Hawwa.

Origin, language, and formation

Hawa is used in Northern Kurdish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hawwa and Eve.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Northern Kurdish, Hawa is pronounced /ˈhɑːwɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,373 girls were recorded with the name Hawa between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 125 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,649 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,824 in 2020 to #1,813 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,175 in 2015 to #1,813 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hawa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 29,900
111 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 14,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,813
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
20,703 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hawa 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 20,703 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hawa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hawas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hawa was born before 2014 — so the typical Hawa is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,373
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.1% of all recorded uses (880).

Is Hawa 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
−164
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+11
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+362
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.28×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
88.8%
Peak was 2024 (125)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,649
2024

Spellings of Hawa

Hawa is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 16.2% against Hawa's 0.09%.

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 Hawa is used

Across 2016–2025, Hawa was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 4,000 girls, against 1 in 10,181 across all states with data. It was least common in Georgia (1 in 50,000).

225 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 4,000
  2. 2Ohio1 in 4,762
  3. 3Virginia1 in 5,882
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 6,250
  5. 5Maryland1 in 7,692
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 8,333
  7. 7Washington1 in 8,333
  8. 8California1 in 14,286

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.

Hawa around the world

Where Hawa 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
    #275
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • France
    1948–2025
    #185
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #619
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Hawa

People whose public names include Hawa, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Hawa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,813
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 11
Best rank ever
#1,649
2024
Peak year
2024
125 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,373
Count in 2025
111

Names similar to Hawa

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

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Names with a curve like Hawa

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Hawa, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Hawa

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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