Given name & surname
Jawdat
“one who is superior”
Jawdat is used as a given name and a surname. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is superior.”
Original Arabicجودت
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “one who is superior.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2003. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jawdat through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 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 boys is 5 in 2003. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 124 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.
Jawdat’s family of names
In English usage, Jawdat has a conventional equivalent in the Kurdish form Cewdet. Jawdat has a related form in Gawdat. Jawdat has a related form in Jaudat.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Jawdat
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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