Nawaf

given name · Arabic · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Nawaf is a given name, most frequently recorded in Saudi Arabia. In Oman it is the 87th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Alto.

rarermore common
  • KWKuwait1 in 1.1K◐
  • SASaudi Arabia1 in 2.5K
  • SYSyria1 in 23K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈587 ●

across 5 countries

Sources
161 ●

17K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 101K ◐

Sweden

Meaning & origin●

Alto

Sources 1

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Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Nawaf is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SA Saudi Arabia#1078,9083.6K rec.——Nawaf144
KW Kuwait#1221,9961.5K rec.——Nawaf84
SY Syria—1,4331.6K rec.——Nawaf18
IQ Iraq—9151K rec.——Nawaf24
TR Türkiye—8801.1K rec.——Nawaf11
QA Qatar#229622354 rec.——Nawaf49
US United States—4454.5K rec.1 in 748K445Nawaf161
AE United Arab Emirates—360261 rec.——Nawaf65
JO Jordan—359333 rec.——Nawaf40
OM Oman#87346348 rec.——Nawaf26
DE Germany—306349 rec.——Nawaf40
AU Australia—267251 rec.—1Nawaf31

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Arabic18K68%
  • English2.1K8%
  • Turkish4832%
  • Urdu4742%
  • Spanish4472%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Arabic17,57768%
English2,0768%
Turkish4832%
Urdu4742%
Spanish4472%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Nawaf is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name318 records spelled Nawaf2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Iraq

    Also written Nawāf

  • Russian given name141 records spelled Nawaf9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria, Iraq, Türkiye, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Наваф, Navaf

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

010203020002010202028 · 2015

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Nawaf in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1998–2025
Yearrecords
19985
200011
200210
20079
20087
20098
20108
201113
201218
201317
201424
201528
201627
201727
201814
201917
202013
202110
202210
202313
202412
202524

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 22 years between 1998–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

192019401960198020002020Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, b. 1937Nawaf Massalha, b. 1943Nawaf Salam, b. 1953Nawaf Suleiman, b. 1954Nawaf Boushal, b. 1999Nawaf Al-Aqidi, b. 2000Nawaf al-Fares, b. 2000M. Nawaf Khoiriyansyah, b. 2006

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 24 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Nawaf
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020445#21,948
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—101#8,512
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202061—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201961—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201855—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201748—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—46#12,531
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201644—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—40#11,365
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—40#10,623
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201534—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201429—

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 75 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Nawaf?
We estimate roughly 587 people bear Nawaf (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Nawaf have the most bearers?
Nawaf is most frequently recorded in Saudi Arabia, where it is most often spelled nawaf.
How common is Nawaf compared with other names?
In Saudi Arabia, Nawaf is the 107th most common given name of 51,390 given names recorded there.
Is Nawaf a male or female name?
Nawaf is a male 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 Nawaf mean?
Recorded meaning: Alto
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Nawaf” — the 107th most common given name in Saudi Arabia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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