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Uwais

#9,637 in 2025Boys' name

From Arabic أويس; literal meaning unconfirmed

Uwais has been given to 70 babies in the U.S. since 2012. In 2025 it ranked #9,637 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Uwais, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Uwais: meaning, origin, and history

From Arabic أويس; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Uwais means

Uwais is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Uwais is used in English.

Uwais comes through Arabic أويس.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 70 boys were recorded with the name Uwais between 2012 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2012; its best national rank was #6,603 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,903 in 2020 to #9,637 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 Uwais?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,637
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Uwais 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Uwais. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Uwaiss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Uwais was born before 2019 — so the typical Uwais is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
60.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
70
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 60.0% of all recorded uses (42).

Is Uwais 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,266
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
61.5%
Peak was 2012 (13)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,603
2012

Spellings of Uwais

Uwais is not the most common spelling — Dwain is, with 85.2% against Uwais's 0.79%.

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.

Uwais around the world

Where Uwais 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
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1996–2005
    #535
    in 2005
  • France
    2017–2025
    #4,598
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2002–2002
    #606
    in 2002

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

Uwais by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,637
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,266
Best rank ever
#6,603
2012
Peak year
2012
13 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
70
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Uwais

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

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Sibling names for Uwais

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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