Given name
Fawzia
“victorious, triumphant”
Fawzia is used as a given name. One English interpretation is “victorious, triumphant.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “victorious, triumphant.”
Where it comes from
Fawzia is a variant of Faizah. An origin associated with Faizah is African.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Arabic فَوْزِيَّة, built from Arabic فَوْز (“victory, triumph”) + ـِيّ.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2008. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Fawzia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 22
- 0 boys · 22 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #15,667 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 15,667 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 794 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Fawzia’s family of names
In English usage, Fawzia has a related form in FOUZIA. In English usage, Fawzia has a related form in Fauzia. Fawzia has a related form in Faizah.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Fawzia
- Fawzia of Egyptqueen consort of Iran from 1941 to 19481921–2013
- Fawzia KoofiAfghan politician and women's rights activistborn 1975
- Fawzia Yusuf AdamSomali politicianborn 1901
- Princess Fawzia of EgyptPrincess of Egypt1940–2005
- Fawzia ZouariTunisian writer and journalistborn 1955
- Fawzia Zainalpolitical and journalist from Bahreinborn 1961
- Fawzia Amin SidoIraqi Yazidi kidnapping victim of ISISborn 2002
- Fawziyya al-SindiBahraini poet and journalistborn 1957
- Fawzia Al-AshmawiEgyptian writer and translatorborn 1942
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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