Hawa
Hawa was given to 111 girls in 2025, #1,813 among girls’ names; 2,373 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,350 Americans named Hawa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hawa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hawa?
#1,813 among girls’ names, 2025
Hawa rose from #2,175 in 2015 to #1,813 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 48.7 to 69.1 per million.
125 babies in 2024, the peak
Hawa peaked in 2024, when 125 girls were given it, #1,649 among girls’ names. The 111 births of 2025 are 89% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 111 | #1,813 | 69.1 |
| 2024 | 125 | #1,649 | 77.2 |
| 2023 | 116 | #1,766 | 72.3 |
| 2022 | 103 | #1,935 | 62.8 |
| 2021 | 113 | #1,793 | 68.9 |
| 2020 | 108 | #1,824 | 66.8 |
| 2019 | 109 | #1,853 | 64.9 |
| 2018 | 110 | #1,842 | 64.7 |
| 2017 | 104 | #1,935 | 60.2 |
| 2016 | 82 | #2,315 | 46.3 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 87 | #2,175 | 48.7 |
| 2014 | 86 | #2,204 | 48.1 |
| 2013 | 76 | #2,390 | 43.3 |
| 2012 | 70 | #2,574 | 39.7 |
| 2011 | 80 | #2,332 | 45.5 |
| 2010 | 76 | #2,463 | 42.8 |
| 2009 | 85 | #2,293 | 46.3 |
| 2008 | 81 | #2,384 | 42.8 |
| 2007 | 68 | #2,692 | 35.4 |
| 2006 | 81 | #2,332 | 42.6 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,877 | 30.8 |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,649 | 21.8 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,755 | 20.3 |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,206 | 24.5 |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,972 | 26.7 |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,471 | 20.9 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,390 | 20.9 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,410 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,485 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,931 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,087 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,099 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,177 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,114 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,177 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,239 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,673 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,802 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,942 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,992 | 4.7 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,994 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,491 | 3.6 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,914 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hawa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hawa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hawa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hawa, and how old are they?
2,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,373 Americans ever recorded as Hawa. The median Hawa alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 4,022 people named Hawa (3,997 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,710 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 11 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 143 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 876 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,320 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Hawa born?
The states with the most babies named Hawa are New York, California and Ohio, with 55% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 17 | #920 | 3.9× |
| California | 16 | #1,439 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 10 | #909 | 1.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,152 | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 7 | #977 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 6 | #3,062 | 0.3× |
| Minnesota | 5 | #898 | 1.3× |
| Maryland | 5 | #889 | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,242 | 0.2× |
Where Hawa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Hawa is most over-represented in New York: since 1978 it was given 3.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Hawa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,625 babies since 1880, Hawa is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 111 of their 131 babies (85%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Hawa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Hawa and names like it
- Compare Hawa and HawwaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHawa peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hawa since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Hawa.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Hawa alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.