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Marwa

#1,720 in 2025Girls' name

Pebbles, flint

Marwa has been given to 2,434 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #1,720 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 119 recorded.

Babies named Marwa, 2025

1 in 27,900

Marwa over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Marwa: meaning, origin, and history

Pebbles, flint

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Marwa means

Marwa means “pebbles, flint”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,434 girls were recorded with the name Marwa between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 119 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,720 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,370 in 2020 to #1,720 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,053 in 2015 to #1,720 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 Marwa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 27,900
119 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 13,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,720
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
19,311 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Marwa 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 19,311 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Marwa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Marwas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Marwa was born before 2013 — so the typical Marwa is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,434
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.5% of all recorded uses (864).

Is Marwa 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
+96
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+650
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+333
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.24×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (119)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,720
2025

Spellings of Marwa

Marwa is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 49.1% against Marwa's 0.03%.

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 Marwa is used

Across 2016–2025, Marwa was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 1,639 girls, against 1 in 12,530 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

161 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 1,639
  2. 2Virginia1 in 6,250
  3. 3New York1 in 7,143
  4. 4Michigan1 in 12,500
  5. 5Ohio1 in 12,500
  6. 6California1 in 16,667
  7. 7Illinois1 in 20,000
  8. 8Maryland1 in 20,000

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.

Marwa around the world

Where Marwa 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
    #306
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1984–2025
    #539
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2008–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    1979–2025
    #290
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #491
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #597
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2002–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Marwa

People whose public names include Marwa, 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.

Marwa in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Marwa. Linked forms have their own page here.

Mervat

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Marwa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,720
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 650
Best rank ever
#1,720
2025
Peak year
2025
119 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,434
Count in 2025
119

Names similar to Marwa

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

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Names with a curve like Marwa

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

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Sibling names for Marwa

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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