Nawaf

#4,343 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Nawaf has been given to 325 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #4,343 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Nawaf, 2025

1 in 138,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Nawaf?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 71,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,343
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nawaf 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nawaf. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nawafs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nawaf was born before 2016 — so the typical Nawaf is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
59.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
325
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 59.4% of all recorded uses (193).

Is Nawaf 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
+2,784
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,179
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−500
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.86×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
85.7%
Peak was 2015 (28)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,843
2015

Spellings of Nawaf

Nawaf is not the most common spelling — Jawad is, with 15.4% against Nawaf's 3.0%.

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 Nawaf is used

Across 1910–2025, Nawaf was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 951,703 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

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. Nawaf has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nawaf around the world

Where Nawaf 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
    2006–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    2021–2025
    #4,227
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2007–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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

Nawaf by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,343
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,179
Best rank ever
#3,843
2015
Peak year
2015
28 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
325
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Nawaf

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Sibling names for Nawaf

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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