How Many People Are Named Arwa?
people named Arwa are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 246,242 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,401 babies named Arwa in Social Security records from 1975 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
99 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Possibly means "mountain goats" in Arabic. This was the name of a 12th-century queen of Yemen.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Arwa in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Arwa alive today is about 13 years old, and 88% are under 30. Half of them were between 3 and 19 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Arwa first appears in the records in 1975, and 2025 was its biggest year so far, with 99 babies.
Babies given the name each year, 1975 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Arwa has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,944, in 2025. In 2025 it ranked #1,944.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,944 |
| Best rank | #1,944 (2025) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #2,271 in the 2020s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Arwa alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Arwa were born in New York than in any other state: about 109 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Arwa was given 4.3 times as often in New York, 4.2 times in Illinois and 1.4 times in California.
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