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Jawad

#1,925 in 2025Boys' name

Generous

Jawad has been given to 1,653 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #1,925 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 81 recorded.

Babies named Jawad, 2025

1 in 40,900

Jawad over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jawad: meaning, origin, and history

Generous

Arabic

What Jawad means

Jawad means “generous”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jawad is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Jawad comes through Arabic جَوَاد.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,653 boys were recorded with the name Jawad between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 81 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,925 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,304 in 2020 to #1,925 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,419 in 2015 to #1,925 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 Jawad?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 40,900
81 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 21,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,925
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
28,370 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jawad sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 28,370 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jawad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jawads were born

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

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,653
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.5% of all recorded uses (553).

Is Jawad 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
+293
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+379
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+494
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.53×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (81)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,925
2025

Spellings of Jawad

Jawad is not the most common spelling — Jared is, with 64.6% against Jawad's 0.52%.

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 Jawad is used

Across 2016–2025, Jawad was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 3,226 boys, against 1 in 21,377 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

131 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 3,226
  2. 2New York1 in 11,111
  3. 3Illinois1 in 25,000
  4. 4California1 in 33,333
  5. 5Florida1 in 50,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 50,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Jawad around the world

Where Jawad 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
    #1,153
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2018
    #595
    in 2018
  • Ireland
    2002–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    1972–2025
    #709
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #720
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1984–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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.

Jawad by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,925
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 379
Best rank ever
#1,925
2025
Peak year
2025
81 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,653
Count in 2025
81

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

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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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