How Many People Are Named Nawal?

1,350

people named Nawal are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 253,173 people in the US has this name

Based on 1,364 babies named Nawal in Social Security records from 1976 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#8,734

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#4,883

See the top 100

Peak Year

2019

60 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: Arabic
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Means "gift" in Arabic.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Nawal in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Nawal alive today is about 16 years old, and 89% are under 30. Half of them were between 7 and 23 in 2025.

Under 30 1,197
88.7%
30 to 59 153
11.3%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Nawal first appears in the records in 1976 and was given most often in 2019, to 60 babies. In 2025, 46 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1976 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Nawal has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #2,807, in 2019. In 2025 it ranked #3,371.

Girls
Rank in 2025#3,371
Best rank#2,807 (2019)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#3,368 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Nawal alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Nawal were born in Minnesota than in any other state: about 239 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Nawal was given about 40.9 times as often in Minnesota.

Minnesota 239
Ohio 37
California 26
New York 22
Michigan 10
Washington 10
Texas 5

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