Arwa
- #1,942 for girls in 2025, 99 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 99 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,401since 1975
Arwa over time
Rank among girls' names. Arwa has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,942 | 99 |
| 2024 | #2,178 | 87 |
| 2023 | #2,020 | 97 |
| 2022 | #2,253 | 83 |
| 2021 | #2,674 | 64 |
| 2020 | #3,061 | 52 |
| 2019 | #2,561 | 68 |
| 2018 | #3,050 | 53 |
| 2017 | #2,816 | 60 |
| 2016 | #3,229 | 50 |
| 2015 | #3,478 | 45 |
| 2014 | #3,326 | 48 |
| 2013 | #3,218 | 50 |
| 2012 | #4,601 | 31 |
| 2011 | #4,807 | 29 |
| 2010 | #4,306 | 34 |
| 2009 | #4,931 | 29 |
| 2008 | #5,279 | 27 |
| 2007 | #5,895 | 23 |
| 2006 | #5,545 | 24 |
| 2005 | #6,820 | 17 |
| 2004 | #6,768 | 17 |
| 2003 | #5,092 | 24 |
| 2002 | #4,498 | 27 |
| 2001 | #6,956 | 15 |
| 2000 | #6,208 | 17 |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 |
| 1998 | #5,583 | 18 |
| 1997 | #6,483 | 14 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 |
| 1994 | #8,804 | 9 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 |
| 1992 | #7,512 | 11 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 |
| 1989 | #7,449 | 10 |
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| 1987 | #4,474 | 18 |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 |
| 1985 | #5,678 | 12 |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 |
| 1981 | #6,323 | 10 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 |
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| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 |
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| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Arwa! It came in at #9,067, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1976, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Arwa is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Illinois | #797 | 11 | 1 in 4,030 |
| Minnesota | #835 | 5 | 1 in 4,296 |
| Michigan | #1,061 | 6 | 1 in 5,955 |
| Virginia | #1,180 | 5 | 1 in 6,748 |
| Ohio | #1,271 | 6 | 1 in 7,878 |
| New York | #1,312 | 10 | 1 in 7,833 |
| Texas | #1,532 | 15 | 1 in 10,703 |
| California | #2,276 | 8 | 1 in 20,216 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Arwa
- 1,119 spots since 2020 (#3,061 → #1,942)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2025 at #1,942 (99 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,235 girls born in 2025 were named Arwa (0.01%)
- 34.4% of all girls named Arwa (482) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 11 | #8,444 (1977) | #8,756 |
| 1980s | 101 | #4,474 (1987) | #6,284 |
| 1990s | 119 | #5,583 (1998) | #7,461 |
| 2000s | 220 | #4,498 (2002) | #5,799 |
| 2010s | 468 | #2,561 (2019) | #3,539 |
| 2020s | 482 | #1,942 (2025) | #2,355 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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