Kawthar
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KOW-thar
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #6,545 for girls
Kawthar is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “abundance”. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies) and 6,545th for girls in the US (17 babies).
What does Kawthar mean?
Arabic
“abundance”
Al-Kawthar, 'abundance', is the shortest surah of the Qur'an and the name of a river in Paradise.
Is Kawthar a girl's or a boy's name?
Kawthar is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK and 17 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kawthar in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,101st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 20% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Kawthar, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,268th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 13 girls.
Half of all the girls named Kawthar in the UK since 1996 were born between 2007 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Kawthar in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 6 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 9 | #2,805 |
| 2021 | 13 | #2,202 |
| 2020 | 12 | #2,268 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 9 | #2,825 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 6 | #3,777 |
| 2014 | 7 | #3,321 |
| 2013 | 10 | #2,599 |
| 2012 | 7 | #3,471 |
| 2011 | 12 | #2,265 |
| 2010 | 7 | #3,308 |
| 2009 | 6 | #3,603 |
| 2008 | 12 | #2,156 |
| 2007 | 9 | #2,543 |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,724 |
| 2005 | 5 | #3,543 |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
| 2003 | 6 | #2,877 |
| 2002 | 8 | #2,231 |
| 2001 | 9 | #1,974 |
| 2000 | 6 | #2,554 |
| 1999 | 4 | #3,374 |
How popular is Kawthar in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,545th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 17 about 1 in 95,000 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, 17 girls in the US were named Kawthar, making it the 6,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. It first appears in the records in 1995.
2025 had the most girls named Kawthar of any year since it first appeared, in 1995.
Half of all the girls named Kawthar in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Kawthar in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,545 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,438 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,554 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,599 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,131 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,146 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,446 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,454 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,125 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,606 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,013 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
Names like Kawthar
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ayat, Safa, Ayah, Zainab, Yusra, Raya, Inaya, Hafsa, Khadija, Haniya, Arya, Noor
Names related to Kawthar
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
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, “Kawthar: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kawthar, updated 20 October 2026.