Kiswah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KISS-wa
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,344 for girls
Kiswah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “covering, garment”. In 2025 it ranked 2,344th for girls in the UK (12 babies).
What does Kiswah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Kiswa; from kiswah
“covering, garment”
The kiswah is the black, gold-embroidered cloth that covers the Kaaba in Mecca and is renewed every year.
Meaning borrowed from Kiswa.
Is Kiswah a girl's or a boy's name?
Kiswah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kiswah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #2,344among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 23,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 50% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were named Kiswah, making it the 2,344th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,766th.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most girls named Kiswah of any year since it first appeared, in 2015.
Half of all the girls named Kiswah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2020 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 29 girls in the UK were given Kiswah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,058, up from #2,344 for this spelling alone.
- Kiswa 17
- Kiswah 12
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,276th in England and Wales.
Kiswah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #2,344 |
| 2024 | 7 | #3,381 |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 6 | #3,697 |
| 2020 | 9 | #2,766 |
| 2019 | 6 | #3,738 |
| 2018 | 1 | #7,536 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
Names like Kiswah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ayah Nusaybah Safa Amal Rehmat Khadija Khairah Hiba Hafsa Zainab Izzah Rahma
Other spellings of Kiswah
Names related to Kiswah
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) 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, “Kiswah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kiswah, updated 20 October 2026.