Marwa
Marwa was given to 119 girls in 2025, #1,720 among girls’ names; 2,434 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,410 Americans named Marwa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Marwa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Marwa mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Marwa is “a female given name from Arabic.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Marwa?
#1,720 among girls’ names, 2025
Marwa rose from #2,053 in 2015 to #1,720 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 53.8 to 74.0 per million.
119 babies in 2025, the peak
Marwa peaked in 2025, when 119 girls were given it, #1,720 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 111 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 119 | #1,720 | 74.0 |
| 2024 | 111 | #1,816 | 68.5 |
| 2023 | 101 | #1,958 | 62.9 |
| 2022 | 111 | #1,837 | 67.7 |
| 2021 | 85 | #2,202 | 51.8 |
| 2020 | 75 | #2,370 | 46.4 |
| 2019 | 83 | #2,226 | 49.5 |
| 2018 | 93 | #2,076 | 54.7 |
| 2017 | 104 | #1,939 | 60.2 |
| 2016 | 86 | #2,241 | 48.5 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 96 | #2,053 | 53.8 |
| 2014 | 85 | #2,229 | 47.6 |
| 2013 | 96 | #2,028 | 54.7 |
| 2012 | 69 | #2,619 | 39.2 |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,683 | 37.5 |
| 2010 | 86 | #2,247 | 48.4 |
| 2009 | 72 | #2,585 | 39.2 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,941 | 31.7 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,157 | 28.6 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,839 | 32.6 |
| 2005 | 48 | #3,241 | 26.0 |
| 2004 | 53 | #2,979 | 28.9 |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,658 | 32.8 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,919 | 28.4 |
| 2001 | 41 | #3,346 | 22.8 |
| 2000 | 51 | #2,842 | 28.1 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,881 | 26.5 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,701 | 18.1 |
| 1997 | 30 | #3,772 | 17.2 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,136 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,831 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,323 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,329 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,327 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,890 | 14.4 |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,070 | 13.2 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,972 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,977 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,138 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 18 | #4,464 | 10.5 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,907 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,411 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,521 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,825 | 4.1 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,848 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,506 | 6.2 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,616 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Marwa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Marwa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Marwa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Marwa, and how old are they?
2,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,434 Americans ever recorded as Marwa. The median Marwa alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 3,562 people named Marwa (3,542 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,834 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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 | 22 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 276 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 874 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,240 |
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 Marwa born?
The states with the most babies named Marwa are California, New York and Minnesota, with 49% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 18 | #1,343 | 0.9× |
| New York | 11 | #1,280 | 2.0× |
| Minnesota | 11 | #490 | 3.3× |
| Illinois | 9 | #980 | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 7 | #1,008 | 2.5× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,167 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,635 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,622 | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,294 | 0.5× |
| Maryland | 5 | #951 | 0.2× |
Where Marwa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Marwa is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1977 it was given 3.3 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 Marwa 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 13,154 babies since 1880, Marwa is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 119 of their 133 babies (89%), the most given that year.
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 Marwa
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 Marwa and names like it
- Compare Marwa and MarvaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMarwa peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Marwa since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Marwa: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Marwa.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Marwa alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.