Marwa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a flint-stone. A hill near the sacred Kaaba
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Marwa is a 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 427(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 655
- SYSyria≈1 in 1.2K
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 235 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 427 (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
a flint-stone. A hill near the sacred Kaaba
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marwa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #51 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 655 | — | Marwa | 157 |
| AF Afghanistan | #411 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Marwa | 15 |
| MA Morocco | #198 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Marwa | 77 |
| TN Tunisia | #17 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 427 | 6.1K | Marwa | 67 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Marwa | 16 |
| SY Syria | #171 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Marwa | 30 |
| ES Spain | — | 5,347 | 1 in 9.4K | 5.3K | Marwa | 41 |
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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Marwa 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 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.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Arabic, flint-stone. See Marwa (m.)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, flint-stone
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In enm, alternative form of marow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kaw, to halve, divide in two
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)
- Marwa El-Sherbinib. 1977EGEgyptian handball player and pharmacist (1977–2009)
- Marwa Arsaniosb. 1978USAmerican artist (born 1978)
- Marwa Husseinb. 1978EGEgyptian hammer thrower
- Marwa Al-Sabounib. 1981SYSyrian architect
- Marwa Eldessoukyb. 1982DEGerman TV presenter
- Marwa Fataftab. 1983PSPalestinian writer, researcher, policy analyst and digital rights expert
- Marwa Zeinb. 1985SDSudanese female filmmaker
- Marwa Amrib. 1989TNTunisian wrestler
- Marwa Loudb. 1996FRFrench singer
- Marwa Abdelhadyb. 1997EGEgyptian beach volleyball player
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 71 sources across 41 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TN Tunisia | INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022) | 1990 | 6.1K | #1 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 5.3K | #839 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.6K | #476 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Marwa mean, and where does it come from?
- a flint-stone. A hill near the sacred Kaaba Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- In which country does Marwa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 159 thousand people named Marwa in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marwa.
- Is Marwa a male or female name?
- Marwa 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.
- What are other forms of the name Marwa?
- In the etymology graph, Merve is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Marwa?
- In Spain, the national register counted 5,347 people named Marwa, about 1 in 9.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Marwa compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Marwa is the 51st most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marwaThe 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, “Marwa” — the 51st most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.