Hàwa

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Hàwa is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Mauritania it is the 25th most common given name.

  • SESweden1 in 16K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 52K
  • DKDenmark1 in 60K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

4,022 people, 2020

Record sources
213 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hawa in US United States, ES Spain, MR Mauritania.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)
recorded in Swedish

Hawa är den arabiska formen av det bibliska → Eva.

Cited for this meaning 3

  • Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Hàwa 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.

Where Hàwa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—4,0221 in 83K4KHawa133
ES Spain—9551 in 52K955Hawa26
SE Sweden—6461 in 16K646—7
NL Netherlands—1151 in 150K115—7
DK Denmark—981 in 60K98——
FI Finland—651 in 86K118——
MR Mauritania#25———Hawa6

4,022 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Hàwa under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Hàwa a male or female name?
Hàwa is a female 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.
In which country does Hàwa have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Hàwa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hawa.
Where is Hàwa most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hàwa is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Hàwa?
In the United States, the national register counted 4,022 people named Hàwa in 2020, about 1 in 83 thousand residents.
How common is Hàwa compared with other names?
In Mauritania, Hàwa is the 25th most common given name of 605 given names recorded there.

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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, “Hàwa” — the 25th most common given name in Mauritania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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