Sawda
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SOW-da
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
Sawda is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).
What does Sawda mean?
Arabic: spelling of Sawdah
Borne by Sawdah bint Zamah, who married the Prophet Muhammad after the death of Khadija.
Meaning borrowed from Sawdah.
Is Sawda a girl's or a boy's name?
Sawda is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sawda in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,276th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 52% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Sawda, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,009th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 8 girls.
Half of all the girls named Sawda in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 17 girls in the UK were given Sawda or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,538, up from #4,276 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Sawda in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 7 | #3,347 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 8 | #3,009 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 8 | #3,068 |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 2009 | 6 | #3,603 |
| 2008 | 7 | #3,203 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 4 | #4,357 |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #3,047 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 4 | #3,345 |
Names like Sawda
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Hafsa, Zainab, Hiba, Rahma, Safaa, Abeeha, Amira, Sama, Huda, Khadija, Ayah
Other spellings of Sawda
Sawdah, Sauda
Names related to Sawda
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, “Sawda: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sawda, updated 20 October 2026.