Urwah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: name of a prominent sahabi; companion of the Prophet Muhammad
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʊɹwɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Urwah is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Pakistan.
- AEUnited Arab Emirates
- SASaudi Arabia
- PKPakistan
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 12 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
name of a prominent sahabi; companion of the Prophet Muhammad
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Urwah counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | listed | Urwah | 12 |
| MY Malaysia | — | — | Urwah | 4 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | listed | Urwah | 3 |
| US United States | — | — | Urwah | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | listed | Urwah | 9 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | — | Urwah | 5 |
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: the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; the islamic-names-dictionary-2005 register; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni 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)
Urwah is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
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as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
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)
- Urwah ibn Zubayrb. 644SAMuslim jurist and scholar (644-713)
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)
Attested in 7 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2015 | — | — |
| SA Saudi Arabia | Dictionary of Islamic Names (2005) | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Urwah mean, and where does it come from?
- name of a prominent sahabi; companion of the Prophet Muhammad Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Urwah?
- A machine transcription gives /ʊɹwɑ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Urwah a male or female name?
- Urwah 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.
- In which country does Urwah have the most bearers?
- Urwah is most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is most often spelled urwah.
What do you want to know about Urwah?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/urwahThe 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, “Urwah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.