Given name
Hauwa
Hauwa is a feminine given name from Arabic. It is used in Hausa.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2017. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hauwa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 0 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 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 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hauwa’s family of names
In Hausa usage, Hauwa has a conventional equivalent in the English form Eve.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Hauwa
- Hauwa IbrahimWinner of Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thoughtborn 1968
- Hauwa MainaNigerian actress and producer
- Hauwa AliNigerian writer
- Hauwa AllahburaNigerian actress
- Hauwa Muhammed SadiqueNigerian engineerborn 1969
- Hauwa OjeifoNigerian sexual violence and mental health activistborn 1992
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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