Kiswa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KISS-wa
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,779 for girls
Kiswa is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “covering, garment”. In 2025 it ranked 1,779th for girls in the UK (17 babies).
What does Kiswa mean?
Arabic: from kiswah
“covering, garment”
The kiswah is the black, gold-embroidered cloth that covers the Kaaba in Mecca and is renewed every year.
Is Kiswa a girl's or a boy's name?
Kiswa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 17 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kiswa in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,779among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 17about 1 in 16,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 800% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 17 girls in the UK were named Kiswa, making it the 1,779th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 34 girls.
Half of all the girls named Kiswa in the UK since 1996 were born between 2021 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 29 girls in the UK were given Kiswa or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,058, up from #1,779 for this spelling alone.
- Kiswa 17
- Kiswah 12
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,719th in England and Wales.
Kiswa in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #1,779 |
| 2024 | 21 | #1,538 |
| 2023 | 34 | #1,075 |
| 2022 | 12 | #2,277 |
| 2021 | 6 | #3,697 |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 5 | #4,220 |
Names like Kiswa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Khadija Yusra Arwa Hana Hafsa Safa Amira Hiba Minha Raya Ayla Ayra
Other spellings of Kiswa
Names related to Kiswa
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, “Kiswa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kiswa, updated 20 October 2026.