Khawlah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KHOW-la
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,856 for girls
Khawlah is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 2,856th for girls in the UK (9 babies).
What does Khawlah mean?
Arabic
Khawlah bint al-Azwar was a celebrated woman warrior of the early Muslim conquests.
Is Khawlah a girl's or a boy's name?
Khawlah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Khawlah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,856th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 31,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 52% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the UK were named Khawlah, making it the 2,856th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,159th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 19 girls.
2025 had fewer girls named Khawlah than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Khawlah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2015 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 16 girls in the UK were given Khawlah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,607, up from #2,856 for this spelling alone.
- Khawlah 9
- Khawla 7
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,786th in England and Wales.
Khawlah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #2,856 |
| 2024 | 14 | #2,057 |
| 2023 | 18 | #1,728 |
| 2022 | 15 | #1,957 |
| 2021 | 19 | #1,669 |
| 2020 | 13 | #2,159 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 9 | #2,825 |
| 2017 | 8 | #3,102 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 8 | #3,114 |
| 2014 | 7 | #3,321 |
| 2013 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 2012 | 5 | #4,390 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,724 |
| 2005 | 1 | #6,340 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 4 | #3,768 |
| 2002 | 1 | #5,540 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 1 | #5,280 |
Names like Khawlah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ayah, Safa, Nusaybah, Zainab, Hafsa, Hiba, Aaliyah, Khadija, Izzah, Ruqayyah, Rahma, Khairah
Other spellings of Khawlah
Names related to Khawlah
Khalilah, Khalayah, Kaliah, Kaylah, Khalila, Khaliyah, Khalia
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, 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, “Khawlah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/khawlah, updated 20 October 2026.