Sauda
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SOW-da
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Sauda is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “dark”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Sauda mean?
Arabic: spelling of Saudah, itself a variant of Sawda
“dark”
Sawda bint Zam'a was one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad and an early convert to Islam.
Meaning borrowed from Saudah.
Is Sauda a girl's or a boy's name?
Sauda is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sauda in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Sauda, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2007, with 7 girls.
In 2025, 17 girls in the UK were given Sauda or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,538, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Sauda in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 3 | #5,966 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 7 | #3,060 |
Names like Sauda
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Hafsa, Hiba, Rahma, Zainab, Sama, Huda, Safaa, Safiya, Abeeha, Raha, Shifa
Other spellings of Sauda
Sawdah, Sawda
Names related to Sauda
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, “Sauda: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sauda, updated 20 October 2026.