Hawa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Swahili female name symbolizing the wife of Adam
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hawa is a 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 each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 213 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
4,022 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Swahili female name symbolizing the wife of Adam.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hawa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4,022 | 1 in 83K | 4K | Hawa | 133 |
| ES Spain | — | 955 | 1 in 52K | 955 | Hawa | 26 |
| SE Sweden | — | 646 | 1 in 16K | 646 | — | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 115 | 1 in 150K | 115 | — | 7 |
| DK Denmark | — | 98 | 1 in 60K | 98 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 65 | 1 in 86K | 118 | — | — |
| MR Mauritania | #25 | — | — | — | Hawa | 6 |
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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hawa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, Eve, wife of Adam, mother of mankind. Hawwa’ bint Zayd: a sahaabia
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Swedish, Hawa är den arabiska formen av det bibliska → Eva.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Swahili, Swahili: 'longing'.
as a nameAfrican Names
mother of humankind
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
In Kurdish, a female given name, equivalent to English Eve
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Eve Ardenb. 1908USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1908–1990)
- Eve Brentb. 1929USnot in their usual nameactress (1929–2011)
- Eve Enslerb. 1953USnot in their usual nameAmerican playwright, performer, feminist, activist and artist (born 1953)
- Diane Warrenb. 1956USnot in their usual nameAmerican songwriter (born 1956)
- Jennie Garthb. 1972USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Eveb. 1978USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper and actress
- Eve Mylesb. 1978GBnot in their usual nameWelsh actress (born 1978)
- Eve Torresb. 1984USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler and Jiu-Jitsu trainer
- Joss Stoneb. 1987GBnot in their usual nameEnglish singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1987)
- Eve Hewsonb. 1991IEnot in their usual nameIrish actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 80 sources across 45 countries.
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hawa mean, and where does it come from?
- Swahili female name symbolizing the wife of Adam. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- In which country does Hawa have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.0 thousand people named Hawa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hawa.
- Where is Hawa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hawa is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- Is Hawa a male or female name?
- Hawa is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Hawa?
- In the etymology graph, Eva, Havva and Eve are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Hawa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,022 people named Hawa in 2020, about 1 in 83 thousand residents.
- How common is Hawa compared with other names?
- In Mauritania, Hawa is the 25th most common given name of 605 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hawaThe 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, “Hawa” — the 25th most common given name in Mauritania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.