Urwa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- UR-wa
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,856 for girls
Urwa is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “handhold, firm grip”. In 2025 it ranked 2,856th for girls in the UK (9 babies).
What does Urwa mean?
Arabic
“handhold, firm grip”
The Quran calls faith in God al-urwa al-wuthqa, 'the firmest handhold'.
Is Urwa a girl's or a boy's name?
Urwa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Urwa in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,856th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 31,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 24% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the UK were named Urwa, making it the 2,856th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,268th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 24 girls.
2025 had fewer girls named Urwa than any year since 2018.
Half of all the girls named Urwa in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were given Urwa or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,977, up from #2,856 for this spelling alone.
- Urwa 9
- Urwah 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,786th in England and Wales.
Urwa in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #2,856 |
| 2024 | 24 | #1,397 |
| 2023 | 13 | #2,185 |
| 2022 | 16 | #1,873 |
| 2021 | 11 | #2,478 |
| 2020 | 12 | #2,268 |
| 2019 | 16 | #1,871 |
| 2018 | 9 | #2,825 |
| 2017 | 19 | #1,711 |
| 2016 | 18 | #1,781 |
| 2015 | 11 | #2,458 |
| 2014 | 14 | #2,076 |
| 2013 | 10 | #2,599 |
| 2012 | 12 | #2,319 |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 2009 | 5 | #4,141 |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
| 2006 | 4 | #4,357 |
Names like Urwa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Hafsa, Hiba, Amira, Zainab, Khadija, Arwa, Ayah, Rahma, Abeeha, Ayra, Marwa
Other spellings of Urwa
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, “Urwa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/urwa, updated 20 October 2026.