Mawada
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ma-WAH-da
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #4,877 for girls
Mawada is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “love, affection”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies) and 4,877th for girls in the US (27 babies).
What does Mawada mean?
Arabic: from mawadda
“love, affection”
The Quran (30:21) speaks of the love and mercy God places between spouses.
Is Mawada a girl's or a boy's name?
Mawada is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK and 27 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mawada in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,935among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadymuch the same
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Mawada, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2021, with 12 girls.
Half of all the girls named Mawada in the UK since 1996 were born between 2017 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Mawada in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 12 | #2,325 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 6 | #3,738 |
| 2018 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 1 | #7,690 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 3 | #4,284 |
How popular is Mawada in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,877among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 27about 1 in 60,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 78% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 27 girls in the US were named Mawada, making it the 4,877th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. It first appears in the records in 2013.
2025 had the most girls named Mawada of any year since it first appeared, in 2013.
Half of all the girls named Mawada in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Mawada in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #4,877 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,276 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,004 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
Names like Mawada
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Abeeha Muntaha Hafsa Nusaybah Mahira Amira Rumaysa Khadija Ayra Rahma Liyana
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), 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, “Mawada: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mawada, updated 20 October 2026.