Girls' name · since 2007
Mawa
58 babies named Mawa in U.S. Social Security records since 2007, with the highest year being 2025. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #33,307 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,893 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 58
- born since 2007
- 2020s
- peak decade
58 babies have been named Mawa since 2007, making it today's #9893 girls' name.
Social Security Administration records show Mawa recorded 58 times among girls since 2007, holding rank #9893 nationally today, ahead of 43% of girls, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2007 to 2025.
- #33,307 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #9,893 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 58 born since 2007
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Mawa ranks #33,307 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #9,893 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 58 born since 2007, peaking in the 2020s.
- #33,307 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,893 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 58
- born since 2007
- 2020s
- peak decade
Mawa's 58 recorded births place it above 53.85% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Mawa compares
58 17th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Mawa's all-time total is 85% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Mawa | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 58 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 10 | 21 | 19,840 |
Mawa's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Mawa's full recorded timeline at 2020, 52% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 48% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2018, with just 6 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2025 peak of 10 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Mawa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2007–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 19 years of records
Mawa by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (30 births, 52% of the file).
2020s was Mawa's strongest decade.
30 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 52% of all-time use.
Mawa births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 7
2000s
7 births
- 2010s
2010s
21 births
- 2020s
2020s
30 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 30 births (52% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2007–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Mawa draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.