Hawa
#1,808 for girls in 2025, 111 births
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 125 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,373since 1978
Hawa over time
Rank among girls' names. Hawa 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 | #1,808 | 111 |
| 2024 | #1,648 | 125 |
| 2023 | #1,762 | 116 |
| 2022 | #1,930 | 103 |
| 2021 | #1,791 | 113 |
| 2020 | #1,818 | 108 |
| 2019 | #1,850 | 109 |
| 2018 | #1,840 | 110 |
| 2017 | #1,930 | 104 |
| 2016 | #2,308 | 82 |
| 2015 | #2,169 | 87 |
| 2014 | #2,194 | 86 |
| 2013 | #2,385 | 76 |
| 2012 | #2,568 | 70 |
| 2011 | #2,326 | 80 |
| 2010 | #2,451 | 76 |
| 2009 | #2,286 | 85 |
| 2008 | #2,380 | 81 |
| 2007 | #2,684 | 68 |
| 2006 | #2,328 | 81 |
| 2005 | #2,865 | 57 |
| 2004 | #3,631 | 40 |
| 2003 | #3,731 | 37 |
| 2002 | #3,196 | 44 |
| 2001 | #2,963 | 48 |
| 2000 | #3,453 | 38 |
| 1999 | #3,374 | 37 |
| 1998 | #4,366 | 25 |
| 1997 | #5,417 | 18 |
| 1996 | #4,883 | 20 |
| 1995 | #5,019 | 19 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 |
| 1992 | #6,008 | 15 |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 |
| 1988 | #6,666 | 11 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 |
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| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 |
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| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 |
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| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Hawa! It came in at #8,562, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1979, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Hawa is popular in 2024
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Virginia#623 · 1 in 2,837
- Maryland#769 · 1 in 3,471
- New York#797 · 1 in 3,930
- Ohio#879 · 1 in 4,680
- Washington#1,081 · 1 in 5,816
Best ever in a state: #443 in Maryland, 2019.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Virginia | #623 | 12 | 1 in 2,837 |
| Maryland | #769 | 6 | 1 in 3,471 |
| New York | #797 | 20 | 1 in 3,930 |
| Ohio | #879 | 10 | 1 in 4,680 |
| Washington | #1,081 | 5 | 1 in 5,816 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,107 | 7 | 1 in 6,619 |
| California | #1,912 | 11 | 1 in 15,060 |
| Texas | #2,274 | 9 | 1 in 18,152 |
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See more about Hawa
- 160 spots since 2024 (#1,648 → #1,808)
- 10 spots since 2020 (#1,818 → #1,808)
- 361 spots since 2015 (#2,169 → #1,808)
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 2024 at #1,648 (125 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,962 girls born in 2024 were named Hawa (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,480 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 37.1% of all girls named Hawa (880) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 6 | #8,562 (1978) | #8,562 |
| 1980s | 47 | #6,531 (1989) | #8,631 |
| 1990s | 185 | #3,374 (1999) | #5,621 |
| 2000s | 579 | #2,286 (2009) | #2,952 |
| 2010s | 880 | #1,840 (2018) | #2,202 |
| 2020s | 676 | #1,648 (2024) | #1,793 |
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.
Hawa in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 12,962 of them was named Hawa, which outranked 90.7% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,637Sahara126
- #1,637Sidra126
- #1,637Tianna126
- #1,648Hawa125
- #1,648Azula125
- #1,648Irie125
- #1,648Judy125
- #1,657Ahana124
- #1,657Cindy124
- #1,657Jaslyn124
Tied with 8 names at #1,648; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.