Ajwa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AJ-wa
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,868 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Ajwa is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “Ajwa date of Medina”. In 2025 it ranked 1,868th for girls in the UK (16 babies) and 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
What does Ajwa mean?
Arabic
“Ajwa date of Medina”
Ajwa is a soft, dark variety of date from Medina, praised in the hadith.
Is Ajwa a girl's or a boy's name?
Ajwa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 girls in the UK and 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ajwa in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,868th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 16 about 1 in 17,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 34% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 16 girls in the UK were named Ajwa, making it the 1,868th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,780th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 43 girls.
Half of all the girls named Ajwa in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,809th in England and Wales.
Ajwa in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #1,868 |
| 2024 | 12 | #2,323 |
| 2023 | 11 | #2,481 |
| 2022 | 14 | #2,052 |
| 2021 | 25 | #1,353 |
| 2020 | 17 | #1,780 |
| 2019 | 24 | #1,403 |
| 2018 | 18 | #1,739 |
| 2017 | 32 | #1,150 |
| 2016 | 43 | #930 |
| 2015 | 23 | #1,474 |
| 2014 | 39 | #1,002 |
| 2013 | 36 | #1,065 |
| 2012 | 29 | #1,232 |
| 2011 | 15 | #1,917 |
| 2010 | 11 | #2,379 |
| 2009 | 7 | #3,201 |
| 2008 | 6 | #3,589 |
| 2007 | 5 | #3,858 |
How popular is Ajwa in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,454th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 160,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Ajwa, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 2009.
Half of all the girls named Ajwa in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Ajwa in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,836 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,227 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,004 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,300 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
Names like Ajwa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Arwa, Safa, Ayra, Abeeha, Hafsa, Amira, Ayat, Liyana, Ayah, Aiza, Hiba, Aqsa
Names related to Ajwa
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Ajwa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ajwa, updated 20 October 2026.