Taqwa
#6,300 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Taqwa has been given to 211 babies in the U.S. since 2005. In 2025 it ranked #6,300 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 22 recorded.
Babies named Taqwa, 2025
1 in 174,000
Taqwa over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Taqwa?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 174,000
- 19 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 84,600
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #6,300
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 120,943 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Taqwa sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Taqwa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Taqwas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Taqwa was born before 2020 — so the typical Taqwa is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 51.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 211
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 51.2% of all recorded uses (108).
Is Taqwa 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
- −531
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +890
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,275
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.19×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 86.4%
- Peak was 2024 (22)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.1% average annual change
Spellings of Taqwa
Taqwa is not the most common spelling — Tara is, with 35.9% against Taqwa's 0.04%.
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.
Taqwa around the world
Where Taqwa 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 & Wales2002–2025#1,639in 2025
- France2007–2025#4,689in 2025
- Canada2019–2023#2,973in 2023
- South Australia2010–2010#801in 2010
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Taqwa by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Taqwa
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Taqwa
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.