Marwa
given name · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Marwa is a given name, most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is the 51st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a flint-stone. A hill near the sacred Kaaba.
- TNTunisia1 in 314◐
- EGEgypt1 in 575
- KWKuwait1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈26K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 211 ●
- 1 in 2.4K ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
87K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Марва in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, UA Ukraine and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
a flint-stone. A hill near the sacred Kaaba
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #51 | 68,309 | 21K rec. | — | — | Marwa | 148 |
| SY Syria | #173 | 20,096 | 21K rec. | — | — | Marwa | 29 |
| TN Tunisia | #8 | 12,669 | 5.9K rec. | — | 6.1K | Marwa | 63 |
| US United States | — | 8,721 | 4.7K rec. | 1 in 38K | 8.7K | Marwa | 211 |
| MA Morocco | #183 | 8,635 | 8.4K rec. | — | — | Marwa | 74 |
| FR France | — | 8,245△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 8.2K | 8.2K | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 5,347△ | 730 rec. | 1 in 9.4K | 5.3K | Marwa | 42 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 3,828 | 3.9K rec. | — | — | Marwa | 26 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #324 | 3,435 | 1K rec. | — | — | Marwa | 100 |
| DZ Algeria | #186 | 3,070 | 3.6K rec. | — | — | Marwa | 38 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #121 | 2,744 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Marwa | 97 |
| KW Kuwait | #118 | 2,086 | 570 rec. | — | — | Marwa | 39 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic125K46%
- French50K19%
- English27K10%
- Spanish14K5%
- Swahili5.6K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 125,224 | 46% |
| French | 50,120 | 19% |
| English | 27,403 | 10% |
| Spanish | 14,472 | 5% |
| Swahili | 5,551 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Marwa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Marwa är ett arabiskt namn bildat antingen till ett ord som betyder ’flinta’ eller till en benämning på en kryddväxt. Ett av de två heliga bergen nära Mekka, där Hagar enligt legenden gick och sökte efter mat och vatten till sin son Ismael, heter Al-Marwa. Berget är betydelsefullt i den muslimska vallfärden. En turkisk form av namnet är Merve.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Arabic, flint-stone. See Marwa (m.)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, flint-stone
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In enm, alternative form of marow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kaw, to halve, divide in two
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1979 | 10 |
| 1980 | 8 |
| 1982 | 7 |
| 1983 | 10 |
| 1984 | 13 |
| 1985 | 12 |
| 1986 | 18 |
| 1987 | 10 |
| 1988 | 17 |
| 1989 | 18 |
| 1990 | 25 |
| 1991 | 27 |
| 1992 | 24 |
| 1993 | 24 |
| 1994 | 24 |
| 1995 | 28 |
| 1996 | 26 |
| 1997 | 30 |
| 1998 | 32 |
| 1999 | 47 |
| 2000 | 51 |
| 2001 | 41 |
| 2002 | 51 |
| 2003 | 60 |
| 2004 | 53 |
| 2005 | 48 |
| 2006 | 62 |
| 2007 | 55 |
| 2008 | 60 |
| 2009 | 72 |
| 2010 | 86 |
| 2011 | 66 |
| 2012 | 69 |
| 2013 | 96 |
| 2014 | 85 |
| 2015 | 96 |
| 2016 | 86 |
| 2017 | 104 |
| 2018 | 93 |
| 2019 | 83 |
| 2020 | 75 |
| 2021 | 85 |
| 2022 | 111 |
| 2023 | 101 |
| 2024 | 111 |
| 2025 | 119 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 47 years between 1977–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Marwa El-Sherbinib. 1977EGEgyptian handball player and pharmacist (1977–2009)
- Marwa Arsaniosb. 1978USAmerican artist (born 1978)
- Marwa Husseinb. 1978EGEgyptian hammer thrower
- Marwa Al-Sabounib. 1981SYSyrian architect
- Marwa Eldessoukyb. 1982DEGerman TV presenter
- Marwa Fataftab. 1983PSPalestinian writer, researcher, policy analyst and digital rights expert
- Marwa Zeinb. 1985SDSudanese female filmmaker
- Marwa Amrib. 1989TNTunisian wrestler
- Marwa Loudb. 1996FRFrench singer
- Marwa Abdelhadyb. 1997EGEgyptian beach volleyball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 71 sources across 40 countries.
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 507 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Marwa?
- We estimate roughly 26 thousand people bear Marwa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Marwa have the most bearers?
- Marwa is most frequently recorded in Egypt, where it is most often spelled marwa.
- How common is Marwa compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Marwa is the 51st most common given name of 72,792 given names recorded there.
- Is Marwa a male or female name?
- Marwa is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Marwa mean?
- Recorded meaning: a flint-stone. A hill near the sacred Kaaba
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marwa” — the 51st most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.