Nawaal
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- na-WAAL
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,776 for girls
Nawaal is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “gift, bounty”. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies).
What does Nawaal mean?
Arabic: spelling of Nawal
“gift, bounty”
Borne by the Egyptian writer and campaigner Nawal El Saadawi, a leading voice for women's rights in the Arab world.
Meaning borrowed from Nawal.
Is Nawaal a girl's or a boy's name?
Nawaal is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nawaal in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,776th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 46,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 45% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the UK were named Nawaal, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 12 girls.
Half of all the girls named Nawaal in the UK since 1996 were born between 2005 and 2017. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
In 2025, 36 girls in the UK were given Nawaal or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #920, up from #3,776 for this spelling alone.
- Nawal 30
- Nawaal 6
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.
Nawaal in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,776 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 2012 | 6 | #3,881 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 6 | #3,715 |
| 2009 | 5 | #4,141 |
| 2008 | 10 | #2,454 |
| 2007 | 5 | #3,858 |
| 2006 | 12 | #1,987 |
| 2005 | 4 | #4,150 |
| 2004 | 11 | #1,949 |
| 2003 | 6 | #2,877 |
| 2002 | 6 | #2,691 |
| 2001 | 3 | #4,156 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 3 | #4,041 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 4 | #3,289 |
How popular is Nawaal in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2014, with 11 girls. It first appears in the records in 2006.
Half of all the girls named Nawaal in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Nawaal in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,512 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
Names like Nawaal
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Zainab, Nusaybah, Hafsa, Aaliyah, Ayah, Rahma, Safaa, Hiba, Sumayyah, Abeeha, Ruqayyah
Other spellings of Nawaal
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), 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, “Nawaal: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nawaal, updated 20 October 2026.