Given name
Fouzia
“victorious, triumphant”
In English use, Fouzia has a related form in Fawzia. One English interpretation is “victorious, triumphant.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In English use, Fouzia has a related form in Fawzia. One English interpretation is “victorious, triumphant.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Fouzia is a form of Fawzia. Fawzia comes from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2014. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Fouzia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 0 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,044 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.
Fouzia’s family of names
In English usage, Fouzia has a related form in Fawzia.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Fouzia
- Fouzia El BayedMoroccan women's rights advocate
- Fawziya Abikar NurFederal Minister for Health and Social Care in Somalia since March 2017
- Fouzia AssouliMoroccan activistborn 1958
- 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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