Marwa
Feminine · “a fragrant plant”
Marwa is a hill in Mecca — one of the two that pilgrims walk between seven times, retracing Hagar's search for water for her son.
How old is the name Marwa?
Marwa first appears in US birth records in 1977 — 48 years ago. The typical Marwa is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 2,400 people named Marwa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Marwa most popular?
Marwa peaked in 2025, reaching #1710 nationally. Today it ranks #1710, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From marwah to Marwa
The story of Marwa
Safa and Marwah are the two hills between which Hagar ran seven times searching for water for Ishmael, and the sa'y — walking that distance seven times — is a required rite of the hajj and umrah. The Quran names both hills. Marwa is used across the Arabic-speaking world and appears in American records in current use.
Meaningscholars disagree
a fragrant plant; quartz stone
The Arabic marwah names a white quartz-like stone and also a fragrant desert plant. As a place name it is the hill al-Marwah in Mecca. Which sense named the hill is not settled. All three are documented in Arabic and the name draws on them together.
How the name formed
- marwah
- Marwa
Related forms: مروة · Marwah · Merve
Pronouncing Marwa
MAR-wah
Two syllables, stress on the first. Arabic rolls the r and gives the final h a light breath.
Nicknames for Marwa
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1977
- Most girls named
- 2025119 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1710reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +7.2%119 in 2025, from 111
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Marwa in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- مروة in Arabic — transliteration
- Marwah in English — spelling variant
- Merve in Turkish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Minnesota, California, New York.
Marwas among us
people named Marwa are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 13,506 born in 2025 was named Marwa
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Marwa
- #1710
- Marwa on the 2025 chart
- #827
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Marwa went to 119 girls in 2025, but Marwah is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 133, which makes it the 827th most-given girls’ name of the year — 883 places above the chart.
- Marwa119
- Marwah14
About 1 girl in 12,085 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 13,506 for Marwa itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Vianca test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Marwa's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Vianca climbed just as high around 1991, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Vianca's path sketches the road Marwa is walking now.
Marwa is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Marwa is headed
Marwa should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Marwa beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Marwa in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It names a place central to one of the world's great pilgrimages.
- The Hagar story behind the rite is genuinely moving.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk in English.
- The word's own sense is split between a stone and a plant.
- Marwah with the h is the fuller transliteration.
- It reads as specifically Muslim.
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Frequently asked
- How many Marwas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,400 people named Marwa are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Marwa?
- Marwa is the most-used spelling in US records — 119 of the 133 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Marwah.
- How popular is the name Marwa in 2025?
- Marwa ranks #1710 among US girl names in 2025, with 119 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Marwa?
- About 1 in every 13,506 US girls born in 2025 was named Marwa — 119 in all.
- Will my child share the name Marwa with classmates?
- Marwa will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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