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Nawal

#3,371 in 2025Girls' name

Gift

Nawal has been given to 1,364 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #3,371 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 60 recorded.

Babies named Nawal, 2025

1 in 72,100

Nawal over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nawal: meaning, origin, and history

Gift

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nawal means

Nawal means “gift”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,364 girls were recorded with the name Nawal between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 60 in 2019; its best national rank was #2,807 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,434 in 2020 to #3,371 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,423 in 2015 to #3,371 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 Nawal?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 72,100
46 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 34,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,371
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
49,955 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nawal 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 49,955 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nawal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nawals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nawal was born before 2010 — so the typical Nawal is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,364
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (482).

Is Nawal 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
+256
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+63
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+52
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.98×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
76.7%
Peak was 2019 (60)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,807
2019

Spellings of Nawal

Nawal is not the most common spelling — Nataly is, with 24.0% against Nawal's 2.1%.

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 Nawal is used

Across 1910–2025, Nawal was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 170,544 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 12,500
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —
  7. 7Washington1 in —

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

Nawal around the world

Where Nawal 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
    #1,110
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2002–2012
    #907
    in 2012
  • France
    1969–2025
    #2,587
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,399
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1971–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Nawal by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,371
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 63
Best rank ever
#2,807
2019
Peak year
2019
60 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,364
Count in 2025
46

Names similar to Nawal

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

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Sibling names for Nawal

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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