Wardah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- WAR-dah
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
Wardah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “rose”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies).
What does Wardah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Warda
“rose”
Warda al-Jazairia, 'Warda the Algerian', was a celebrated singer of Arabic music.
Meaning borrowed from Warda.
Is Wardah a girl's or a boy's name?
Wardah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Wardah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 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, 4 girls in the UK were named Wardah, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2005, with 7 girls.
Half of all the girls named Wardah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2003 and 2018. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were given Wardah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,977, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.
- Warda 8
- Wardah 4
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Wardah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 5 | #4,390 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 1 | #7,520 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 4 | #4,742 |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 7 | #2,806 |
| 2004 | 3 | #4,789 |
| 2003 | 4 | #3,768 |
| 2002 | 6 | #2,691 |
| 2001 | 4 | #3,427 |
| 2000 | 4 | #3,399 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 3 | #3,935 |
Names like Wardah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Farah, Aaliyah, Hibah, Safa, Aakifah, Sumayyah, Samah, Afrah, Izzah, Nusaybah, Umaymah, Zainab
Other spellings of Wardah
Names related to Wardah
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) 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, “Wardah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/wardah, updated 20 October 2026.