Dwija
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- DWEE-ja
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,776 for girls
Dwija is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “twice-born”. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies).
What does Dwija mean?
Sanskrit: from dvija
“twice-born”
Sanskrit dvija, 'twice-born', is also a traditional word for birds, born once as an egg and again on hatching.
Is Dwija a girl's or a boy's name?
Dwija is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Dwija in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,776th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 46,000 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, 6 girls in the UK were named Dwija, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th.
2025 had the most girls named Dwija of any year since it first appeared, in 2020.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.
Dwija in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,776 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 1 | #7,491 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
Names like Dwija
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Dhyana, Divisha, Viha, Krisha, Kridha, Dhanvi, Dhriti, Nishtha, Shreeja, Prisha, Priya, Akshara
More Sanskrit names
Maya, Bodhi, Arya, Lila, Arjun, Aarav, Rohan, Kali, Aryan, Opal, Arjan, Vihaan, Aadhya, Avyaan, Ishaan, Siya
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, “Dwija: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dwija, updated 20 October 2026.