Khawla
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KHOW-la
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,409 for girls
Khawla is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies).
What does Khawla mean?
Arabic: spelling of Khawlah
Khawlah bint al-Azwar was a celebrated woman warrior of the early Muslim conquests.
Meaning borrowed from Khawlah.
Is Khawla a girl's or a boy's name?
Khawla is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Khawla in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,409th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 40,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 163% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Khawla, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2022, with 11 girls.
Half of all the girls named Khawla in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 16 girls in the UK were given Khawla or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,607, up from #3,409 for this spelling alone.
- Khawlah 9
- Khawla 7
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,332nd in England and Wales.
Khawla in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #3,409 |
| 2024 | 10 | #2,644 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 11 | #2,450 |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 8 | #3,068 |
| 2017 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 7 | #3,321 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 6 | #3,715 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 6 | #3,589 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
| 2002 | 3 | #4,284 |
| 2001 | 5 | #2,928 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 3 | #3,991 |
Names like Khawla
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Hafsa, Hiba, Khadija, Rahma, Huda, Ayah, Amira, Abeeha, Zainab, Ayra, Ayla
Other spellings of Khawla
Names related to Khawla
Khalilah, Khalayah, Khalila, Khaliyah, Khalia, Khaliya, Khalaya
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, 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, “Khawla: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/khawla, updated 20 October 2026.