Hawo

Girls' name

Variant of Xaawo

Hawo has been given to 61 babies in the U.S. since 2006. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Hawo, 2022

1 in 564,000

Hawo over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hawo: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Xaawo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hawo means

Hawo is a variant of Xaawo.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Hawo is used in Somali.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Xaawo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 61 girls were recorded with the name Hawo between 2006 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2006; its best national rank was #12,807 in 2006.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Hawo?

Hawo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022: 1 in 564,000; 6 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only: 1 in 273,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 391,139 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Hawo 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 2022 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 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hawo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hawos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hawo was born before 2012 — so the typical Hawo is around 13 today.

Median birth year: 2012; About 13 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 55.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 61; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 55.7% of all recorded uses (34).

Is Hawo 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2006 (8)
Years since peak: 19; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Very steady; 4.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #12,807; 2006

Spellings of Hawo

Hawo is not the most common spelling — Dawn is, with 80.6% against Hawo's 0.02%.

Dawn80.6%289,641
Shawn9.2%33,055
Hana3.6%13,007
Fawn1.6%5,635
Hali1.3%4,639
Halo1.3%4,509
Hawa0.66%2,373
Hala0.50%1,813

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.

Hawo around the world

Where Hawo 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.

France
1983–1983
#2,772
in 1983

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Hawo by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #12,807; 2006
Peak year: 2006; 8 that year
First recorded: 2006
Last recorded: 2022
All-time count: 61
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Hawo

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

Hawi Hawwa Hawra Hawley Hawraa Hawkins Hawa Hawah Hawaii Hawanya Hawwaa Awo Hawanatu Hawthorne

Sibling names for Hawo

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

For a sister

Taniya Melia Jazmyne Jayna Nyasia Tayla Lanie Estefany

For a brother

Paulo Yair Lavon Tye Deshaun Oswaldo Nathen Britton

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