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Zawadi

#8,846 in 2025Girls' name

Gift, present

Zawadi has been given to 258 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #8,846 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Zawadi, 2025

1 in 276,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zawadi: meaning, origin, and history

Gift, present

Arabic

What Zawadi means

Zawadi means “gift, present”, associated with zawadi.

Origin, language, and formation

Zawadi is used in Swahili. Its origins include Arabic.

Zawadi comes through Arabic زَوَاد.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Swahili, Zawadi is pronounced /zɑˈwɑ.ɗi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 258 girls were recorded with the name Zawadi between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2023; its best national rank was #5,540 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,842 in 2020 to #8,846 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,818 in 2015 to #8,846 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 Zawadi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,846
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Zawadi 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zawadi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zawadis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zawadi was born before 2018 — so the typical Zawadi is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
40.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
258
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 40.7% of all recorded uses (105).

Is Zawadi 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
−3,057
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,004
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,972
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
52.2%
Peak was 2023 (23)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,540
2023

Spellings of Zawadi

Zawadi is not the most common spelling — Zamari is, with 70.4% against Zawadi's 29.6%.

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.

Zawadi around the world

Where Zawadi 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
    2024–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    2017–2025
    #7,277
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2019
    #2,941
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Zawadi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,846
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,004
Best rank ever
#5,540
2023
Peak year
2023
23 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
258
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Zawadi

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

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Sibling names for Zawadi

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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