Around the world, Lawa (Lava 
, Lawa , ลาวา 
) is a common gender-neutral given name. The given name Lawa is characteristic of Western Asia, particularly Iraq, where it is quite a common epicene name, Syria, where it is quite a rare principally girly, but very infrequently male name, and Qatar, where it is a rare boy's name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is commonest in India, Iraq, and Nigeria. Also, Lawa is the last name as well as the forename.