Bawi
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- BAH-wee
- US rank, 2025
- #8,906 for boys
Bawi is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 8,906th for boys in the US (8 babies).
Where does Bawi come from?
Name used by Chin families from Myanmar
Is Bawi a girl's or a boy's name?
Bawi is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Bawi in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,906among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 210,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 8 boys in the US were named Bawi, making it the 8,906th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,976th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 32 boys. It first appears in the records in 2009.
Half of all the boys named Bawi in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Bawi in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #8,906 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,307 |
| 2023 | 6 | #10,815 |
| 2022 | 7 | #9,815 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,820 |
| 2020 | 14 | #5,976 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,209 |
| 2018 | 19 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,681 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,775 |
| 2015 | 32 | #3,430 |
| 2014 | 14 | #5,993 |
| 2013 | 18 | #4,978 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,530 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,670 |
| 2010 | 7 | #9,686 |
| 2009 | 6 | #10,989 |
Names like Bawi
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Obi Om Omari Ayomide Tadeo Kwame Atom Bodhi Kobe Nolawi Onyx Ori
Sources
Figures from 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, “Bawi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/bawi, updated 20 October 2026.