Wateen
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- wa-TEEN
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #655 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #1,796 for girls
Wateen is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “the heart's main artery”. In 2025 it ranked 655th for girls in the UK (63 babies) and 1,796th for girls in the US (112 babies).
What does Wateen mean?
Arabic: Arabic watin
“the heart's main artery”
Al-watin, the heart's main artery or aorta, is mentioned in Surah Al-Haqqah of the Qur'an.
Is Wateen a girl's or a boy's name?
Wateen is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 63 girls in the UK and 112 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Wateen in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 655th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 63 about 1 in 4,400 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 427% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 63 girls in the UK were named Wateen, making it the 655th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,566th.
2025 had the most girls named Wateen of any year since it first appeared, in 2013.
Half of all the girls named Wateen in the UK since 1996 were born between 2022 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 67 girls in the UK were given Wateen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #589, up from #655 for this spelling alone.
- Wateen 63
- Watin 4
Among girls in 2025, it was 642nd in England and Wales and 397th in Northern Ireland.
Wateen in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63 | #655 |
| 2024 | 46 | #856 |
| 2023 | 28 | #1,247 |
| 2022 | 28 | #1,248 |
| 2021 | 18 | #1,726 |
| 2020 | 10 | #2,566 |
| 2019 | 16 | #1,871 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 4 | #4,967 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,719 |
How popular is Wateen in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,796th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 112 about 1 in 14,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 648% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 112 girls in the US were named Wateen, making it the 1,796th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. It first appears in the records in 2012.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 4 years. 2025 had the most girls named Wateen of any year since it first appeared, in 2012.
Half of all the girls named Wateen in the US since 1880 were born between 2022 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.
Wateen in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 112 | #1,796 |
| 2024 | 73 | #2,462 |
| 2023 | 62 | #2,757 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,825 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,612 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,872 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,050 |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
Names like Wateen
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Rehmat, Nusaybah, Hafsa, Ayah, Zainab, Abeeha, Rahma, Safaa, Ayra, Hiba, Ayzal
Names related to Wateen
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), 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, “Wateen: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/wateen, updated 20 October 2026.