Nashwa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: elated, exultant, flushed, enraptured; feminine of Nashwan
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Nashwa is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- SDSudan≈1 in 3.2Kfew records
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 15Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈52,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)elated, exultant, flushed, enraptured; feminine of Nashwan
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nashwa 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 | #429 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Nashwa | 90 |
| SD Sudan | #177 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Nashwa | 23 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Nashwa | 49 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 212K | listed | Nashwa | 8 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Nashwa | 8 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Nashwa | 45 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Nashwa | 14 |
| US United States | — | 284 | 1 in 1.2M | 282 | Nashwa | 114 |
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; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register. 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)Nashwa is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, elated, exalted, exuberant; fem. of Nashwan.”*
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, fragrance, aroma
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Sentimiento maravilloso
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)- Nashoua Mostafab. 1968EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian actor
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 282 | #30,611 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1987 | 5 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #30,611 |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nashwa mean, and where does it come from?
- elated, exultant, flushed, enraptured; feminine of Nashwan Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Is Nashwa a male or female name?
- Nashwa is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Nashwa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Nashwa in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nashwa.
- How common is the name Nashwa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 284 people named Nashwa in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Nashwa compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Nashwa is the 429th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nashwaThe 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, “Nashwa” — the 429th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.