Awwab
given name · Latin script
Meaning: sincere repentant, one who praises Allah
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries
/ɔwɑb/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Awwab is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.5M(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.5M (inferred from the name graph)
5 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)sincere repentant, one who praises Allah. An epithet of Muhammad (s)
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Awwab counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 5 | 1 in 3.5M | 5 | — | — |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | — | — | Awwab | 16 |
| EG Egypt | — | — | — | Awwab | 4 |
| SD Sudan | — | — | — | Awwab | 5 |
| SY Syria | — | — | — | Awwab | 4 |
| JO Jordan | — | — | — | Awwab | 3 |
| QA Qatar | — | — | — | Awwab | 6 |
5 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Awwab is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, sincere repentant, supplicant
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Devolver (a Alá)
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 5 | #27,027 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Awwab come from?
- sincere repentant, one who praises Allah. An epithet of Muhammad (s) Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Awwab?
- A machine transcription gives /ɔwɑb/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Awwab a male or female name?
- Awwab is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Awwab mean?
- Recorded meaning: sincere repentant, one who praises Allah.
- In which country does Awwab have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 5 people named Awwab, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Awwab most common?
- Awwab is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.5 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Awwab?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 5 people named Awwab, about 1 in 3.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Awwab?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/awwabThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Awwab”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.