Marwâ

given name · Latin script

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

Marwâ is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 51st most common given name.

  • TNTunisia≈1 in 180(inferred from the name graph)
  • EGEgypt≈1 in 250
  • AFAfghanistan≈1 in 350few records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Marwâ itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Egypt (inferred from the name graph)

≈460,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
235 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 177 (inferred from the name graph)

Tunisia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
MarwâLatin(measured from records)
МарваCyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Marwa in EG Egypt, SY Syria, MA Morocco and 4 more.

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

Marwa är ett arabiskt namn bildat antingen till ett ord som betyder ’flinta’ eller till en benämning på en kryddväxt. Ett av de två heliga bergen nära Mekka, där Hagar enligt legenden gick och sökte efter mat och vatten till sin son Ismael, heter Al-Marwa. Berget är betydelsefullt i den muslimska vallfärden. En turkisk form av namnet är Merve.

Cited for this meaning 3

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Marwâ 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 Marwâ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EG Egypt#51≈460,000 est.≈1 in 253—Marwa157
AF Afghanistan#411≈120,000 est.≈1 in 351—Marwa15
TN Tunisia#17≈69,000 est.≈1 in 1776.1KMarwa67
DZ Algeria#150≈56,000 est.≈1 in 834—Marwa38
MA Morocco#198≈54,000 est.≈1 in 708—Marwa77
SY Syria#171≈33,000 est.≈1 in 746—Marwa30
ES Spain—5,3471 in 9.4K5.3KMarwa41

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: INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Marwâ is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name53 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, Syria

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Marwa, Màrwà, Màrwa, Mârwå, Mărwă

  • French given name56 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Morocco, Tunisia

    Languages: French, Romanian

    Also written Marwa, Màrwà, Mãrwã, Màrwa, Marwà

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Marwâ 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 Marwâ a male or female name?
Marwâ 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 Marwâ have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 461 thousand people named Marwâ in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marwa.
How common is the name Marwâ?
In Spain, the national register counted 5,347 people named Marwâ, about 1 in 9.4 thousand residents.
How common is Marwâ compared with other names?
In Egypt, Marwâ is the 51st most common given name of 107,792 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, “Marwâ” — the 51st most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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