Awa — #5498 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Awa

The Social Security Administration has registered 842 babies named Awa between 1992 and 2024, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Awa currently holds the #5498 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 44 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Awa performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 316 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Awa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 247 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Awa in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Awa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 842 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.