Nawal
Nawal was given to 46 girls in 2025, #3,371 among girls’ names; 1,364 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,350 Americans named Nawal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nawal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nawal?
#3,371 among girls’ names, 2025
Nawal rose from #3,423 in 2015 to #3,371 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 26.3 to 28.6 per million.
60 babies in 2019, the peak
Nawal peaked in 2019, when 60 girls were given it, #2,807 among girls’ names. The 46 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | #3,371 | 28.6 |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,627 | 26.5 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,625 | 18.7 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,939 | 23.2 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,988 | 22.5 |
| 2020 | 45 | #3,434 | 27.8 |
| 2019 | 60 | #2,807 | 35.7 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,720 | 24.1 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,127 | 30.1 |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,758 | 23.1 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 47 | #3,423 | 26.3 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,306 | 27.4 |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,208 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,966 | 32.9 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,985 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,556 | 25.3 |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,252 | 19.6 |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,986 | 21.2 |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,109 | 19.8 |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,835 | 21.0 |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,626 | 22.2 |
| 2004 | 48 | #3,206 | 26.1 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,271 | 24.6 |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,444 | 22.3 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,916 | 18.3 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,140 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,046 | 16.3 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,589 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,332 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,702 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,906 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,586 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,501 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,206 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,111 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,737 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,487 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,011 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,479 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,032 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,221 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,909 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,281 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,731 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,942 | 3.6 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,841 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,350 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nawal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nawal 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 Nawal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nawal, and how old are they?
1,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,364 Americans ever recorded as Nawal. The median Nawal alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 3,030 people named Nawal (2,949 women and girls, 81 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,125 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 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 | 21 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 148 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 604 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 576 |
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 Nawal born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 9 | #585 | 9.1× |
| New York | 5 | #2,323 | 0.3× |
Where Nawal is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nawal is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1976 it was given 9.1 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 Nawal 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,478 babies since 1880, Nawal is the most given (92% of them). In 2025 it was given to 46 of their 46 babies (100%), 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 Nawal
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 Nawal and names like it
- Compare Nawal and NawaalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNawal peaked in 2019.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nawal since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Nawal.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nawal alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.