Hawa

girls:

2.1k births since 1978

#3717 (35th percentile)

overall:

2.1k births since 1978

#5651 (27th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Hawa is the #5,651 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,136 recorded births since 1978. This represents the 27.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 27.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,717 (35.0% percentile) for all time with 2,136 births since 1978.

Hawa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1978 (first recorded for girls in 1978). Birth data for Hawa is available in 41 out of the 46 years between 1978 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

For girls, Hawa reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 11.7% percentile (ranked #836) with 66 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 66 births per million (ranked 11.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1985, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Hawa is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #836 (11.7% percentile) with 66 births per million.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hawa".

1978 2023 19782023

Key Statistics

Total Births
2,136
Peak Births
116
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
1978
Peak Percentile
11.7%
Current Percentile
11.7%
Peak Rank
#836
Current Rank
#836
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Hawa

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Hawa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 68.8% confident that Hawa is pronounced as HAH-wuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HUH-wuh, at 21.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.

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68.8%
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21.9%
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9.4%
HAH-wuh (2 syllables)
68.8% confidence
HH AA1 W AH0
HUH-wuh (2 syllables)
21.9% confidence
HH AH1 W AH0
huh-WUH (2 syllables)
9.4% confidence
HH AH0 W AH1

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like HH AA1 W AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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