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Hawwa

#8,041 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Eve

Hawwa has been given to 108 babies in the U.S. since 2010. In 2025 it ranked #8,041 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Hawwa, 2025

1 in 255,000

Hawwa over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hawwa: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Eve

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hawwa means

Hawwa is a form of Eve.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Hawwa → Eve → Eva → Εὔᾱ → חַוָּה. The family’s meaning is “to live”, recorded in Hebrew with the source elements ḥyw.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Eve.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 108 girls were recorded with the name Hawwa between 2010 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2014; its best national rank was #7,815 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,635 in 2020 to #8,041 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,396 in 2015 to #8,041 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 Hawwa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,041
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hawwa 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hawwa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hawwas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hawwa was born before 2019 — so the typical Hawwa is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
108
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 52.8% of all recorded uses (57).

Is Hawwa 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
+6,047
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,594
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,355
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.30×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
86.7%
Peak was 2014 (15)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
63.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,815
2014

Spellings of Hawwa

Hawwa is not the most common spelling — Shawna is, with 36.5% against Hawwa'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.

Hawwa around the world

Where Hawwa 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
    1997–2025
    #413
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2024–2024
    #638
    in 2024
  • France
    2003–2025
    #4,744
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2020–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Hawwa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,041
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,594
Best rank ever
#7,815
2014
Peak year
2014
15 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
108
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Hawwa

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

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Sibling names for Hawwa

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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