Arwaa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AR-wa
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
Arwaa is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “female mountain goat”. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies).
What does Arwaa mean?
Arabic: spelling of Arwa
“female mountain goat”
Queen Arwa al-Sulayhi ruled Yemen for several decades in the 11th and 12th centuries.
Meaning borrowed from Arwa.
Is Arwaa a girl's or a boy's name?
Arwaa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Arwaa in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,101among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadymuch the same
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Arwaa, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,009th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 17 girls.
Half of all the girls named Arwaa in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 153 girls in the UK were given Arwaa or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #331, up from #3,101 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Arwaa in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 14 | #2,057 |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 17 | #1,794 |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 8 | #3,009 |
| 2019 | 12 | #2,275 |
| 2018 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 2017 | 11 | #2,485 |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 2015 | 6 | #3,777 |
| 2014 | 9 | #2,809 |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 7 | #3,471 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 1 | #7,377 |
| 2008 | 8 | #2,895 |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
Names like Arwaa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Ayah Zainab Abeeha Hafsa Safaa Hiba Rahma Amira Aaliyah Nusaybah Ayra
Other spellings of Arwaa
Arwa Arwah
Names related to Arwaa
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Arwaa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/arwaa, updated 20 October 2026.