Boys' name · since 2017
Muawiyah
12 babies named Muawiyah in U.S. Social Security records since 2017, with the highest year being 2017. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #32,838 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 12
- born since 2017
- 2010s
- peak decade
Muawiyah sits outside today's top ranks for boys, with 12 recorded since 2017.
Muawiyah has 12 recorded births among boys since 2017, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2017 to 2019.
- #32,838 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- 12 born since 2017
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Muawiyah ranks #32,838 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 12 born since 2017, peaking in the 2010s.
- #32,838 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 12
- born since 2017
- 2010s
- peak decade
Muawiyah's 12 recorded births place it above 27.23% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Muawiyah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Muawiyah's full recorded timeline at 2019, 50% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 50% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2017, with just 6 recorded births.
Muawiyah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2019
- Peak year (2017)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 3 years of records
Muawiyah by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (12 births, 100% of the file).
2010s was Muawiyah's strongest decade.
12 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Muawiyah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
12 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 12 births (100% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Muawiyah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2017)
Similar record span (~2 yrs)
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, 2017–2019 (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 Muawiyah 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.