Khawla
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Khawla is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country. Recorded meaning: female gazelle; beauty.
- TNTunisia≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 1.8K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
female gazelle; beauty
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Khawla 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #269 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Khawla | 60 |
| TN Tunisia | #145 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Khawla | 34 |
| DZ Algeria | #388 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | listed | Khawla | 24 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #185 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Khawla | 84 |
| JO Jordan | #591 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Khawla | 45 |
| US United States | — | 459 | 1 in 725K | 457 | Khawla | 104 |
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. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Khawla Shakhsirb. 1947PSPalestinian academic
- Khawla Abu Bakerb. 1955ILIsraeli university teacher
- Khawlah Hag-Debsyb. 1969ILnot in their usual nameArab-Israeli actress
- Khawla Elhadefb. 1972TNTunisian actress, theater teacher, director and playwright
- Khaoula Hosnib. 1982TNnot in their usual nameTunisian writer
- Khaoula Hamdib. 1984TNnot in their usual nameTunisian novelist
- Khaoula Ben Aichab. 1988TNnot in their usual nameTunisian politician
- Khaoula Ben Hamzab. 1991TNnot in their usual nameTunisian taekwondo athlete
- Khawla bint Tha'labahfemale companion of Muhammad
- Khawla bint ManzurSAOne of the wives of Hasan ibn Ali
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Khawla mean, and where does it come from?
- female gazelle; beauty Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- Is Khawla a male or female name?
- Khawla 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 Khawla have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Khawla in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled khawla.
- How common is the name Khawla?
- In the United States, the national register counted 459 people named Khawla in 2020, about 1 in 725 thousand residents.
- How common is Khawla compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Khawla is the 269th most common given name of 41,711 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/khawlaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Khawla” — the 269th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.