Awad
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ah-WAHD
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,021 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #12,003 for boys
Awad is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “compensation, reward”. In 2025 it ranked 3,021st for boys in the UK (7 babies) and 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).
What does Awad mean?
Arabic: from Arabic iwad
“compensation, reward”
Is Awad a girl's or a boy's name?
Awad is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the UK and 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Awad in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,021st among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 43,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 133% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the UK were named Awad, making it the 3,021st most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,803rd.
2025 had the most boys named Awad of any year since it first appeared, in 2006.
Among boys in 2025, it was 2,938th in England and Wales.
Awad in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #3,021 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,346 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,193 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,017 |
| 2021 | 3 | #4,989 |
| 2020 | 3 | #4,803 |
| 2019 | 3 | #4,913 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 3 | #4,995 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 1 | #6,179 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 3 | #4,865 |
| 2009 | 3 | #4,691 |
| 2008 | 6 | #2,906 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 6 | #2,645 |
How popular is Awad in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 12,003rd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 340,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Awad, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2014, with 16 boys. It first appears in the records in 1995.
Half of all the boys named Awad in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Awad in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,003 |
| 2024 | 6 | #10,930 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 6 | #10,794 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 7 | #9,750 |
| 2018 | 6 | #10,754 |
| 2017 | 8 | #8,835 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,180 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,080 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,481 |
| 2013 | 6 | #10,722 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,267 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,495 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 6 | #10,989 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,361 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,292 |
| 2004 | 7 | #8,921 |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,574 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,449 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,236 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 5 | #9,905 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,623 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,275 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 5 | #8,861 |
Names like Awad
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad, Ahmed, Ahad, Abdullah, Hamza, Zayd, Fahad, Musa, Zayaan, Azaan, Amir, Zayan
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Kairo, Safa
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, “Awad: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/awad, updated 20 October 2026.