Arwah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AR-wa
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
Arwah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “female mountain goat”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).
What does Arwah 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 Arwah a girl's or a boy's name?
Arwah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Arwah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,276th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 225% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Arwah, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 5 girls.
In 2025, 153 girls in the UK were given Arwah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #331, up from #4,276 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Arwah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
Names like Arwah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ayah, Nusaybah, Safa, Azeemah, Aaliyah, Aafiyah, Hiba, Afrah, Zainab, Abeeha, Hafsa, Aakifah
Other spellings of Arwah
Names related to Arwah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, 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) 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, “Arwah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/arwah, updated 20 October 2026.