Names of Kuwait KW

PACI Kuwait — most common newborn names (top-10 ranked) records فاطمة as the commonest given name in Kuwait; the names that most distinguish Kuwait from the rest of the world are LastName, المطيري and العنزي.

Written in Arabic.

Population
3M
Official registers
2
Name forms recorded
11K
BBuilt from 2 official registers (2025), 11,359 name forms in our corpus, 12 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

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Where the names most characteristic of Kuwait are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Kuwait included.

How names work in Kuwait

2 naming traditions are in use in Kuwait, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Kuwait

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 2
PACI Kuwait — most common newborn names (top-10 ranked), 2025 — 10 given names counted over residents, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1فاطمة—35
2مريم——
3ساره—19
4نوره—16
5منيره—63
6دلال—34
7شيخه—62
8ريم—23
9عائشة——
10دانه—96

Where the two lists disagree

10 of PACI Kuwait — most common newborn names (top-10 ranked)'s top 10 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

PACI Kuwait — most common newborn names (top-10 ranked) 2025Across all recordsفاطمة: 1 → 35 · ranks lower across all records1. فاطمة35مريم: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. مريمnot rankedساره: 3 → 19 · ranks lower across all records3. ساره19نوره: 4 → 16 · ranks lower across all records4. نوره16منيره: 5 → 63 · ranks lower across all records5. منيره63دلال: 6 → 34 · ranks lower across all records6. دلال34شيخه: 7 → 62 · ranks lower across all records7. شيخه62ريم: 8 → 23 · ranks lower across all records8. ريم23عائشة: 9 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country9. عائشةnot rankedدانه: 10 → 96 · ranks lower across all records10. دانه96
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
PACI Kuwait — most common newborn names (top-10 ranked), 2025 on the left; every record we hold for Kuwait on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Kuwait

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Kuwait holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

LiamنورهSaraNouraسارهNoahFatmaامShahadEmmaReemAishaفاطمهShaikhaعبداللهريمAbdulazizFahadفهدنوفAmalRawanKhaledدلالMahaNoorFajerعايشهشيخهمهاخلودZainabEmanعبدالعزيزمشاعلبشايرMonaحصهMuneeraمنىروانFaisalHadeelمنيرهAlanoudLatifaاسماءHayaFarahشهدNourahDanaAbdulrahmanHananGhadeerالعنوددانهAbeerشوقناصر
Sized by how much of the difference between Kuwait's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Scripts & spelling

Names in Kuwait are written in Latin (61%) and Arabic (39%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.

LastNamesurname●
Saragiven name●
Fatmagiven name●
Liamgiven name●
المطيريsurname●
The best-attested names in Kuwait, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

  • PACI Kuwait — most common newborn names (top-10 ranked)2025headline (given)

    Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI). Counts: residents. given. 10 forms. 2018–2025. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    PACI top most-common given names, ranked by sex; Arabic with Latin transliteration, rank order, no counts ever published. 59 rows across 4 years. The live tool (paci.gov.kw/stat → 'أعلى الاسماء' widget, geofenced to Kuwait, reached via Decodo WSA) renders the current population-snapshot top-10 M/F; harvested 2025 (state at 31 Dec 2025), full top-10 each sex. The SuperWEB2 reports portal (kuwaitstat.paci.gov.kw/webapi, stat.paci.gov.kw/englishreports) has NO names report and no per-year name selector, so historical years come from PACI's irregular press releases: 2018 top-10 both sexes (arabtimesonline.com), 2019 top-5 both sexes (alaan.cc; ranks 6-10 image-only, not reproduced), 2024 top-5 M / top-4 F (state 31 Dec 2024; timeskuwait.com / al-Qabas / al-Rai). No distinct PACI release was published/reproduced for 2020-2023. PACI labels the figure a population-stock snapshot ('state at 31 Dec'), loosely a newborn-name proxy. Rebuilt by scripts/fetch_kw_paci_names.py (resumable; caches raw widget HTML under raw/KW/paci/).

    Last verified 2026-06-28.

  • The page details the most popular baby names in California from 1960 to 2024, as compiled by the California Department o2021not a population count

    data.ca.gov. Counts: not recorded. given. 2 forms. 2021. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-discovered via Firecrawl. The page details the most popular baby names in California from 1960 to 2024, as compiled by the California Department of Public Health.

    Last verified 2026-05-11.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Kuwait?
فاطمة, according to PACI Kuwait — most common newborn names (top-10 ranked) (2025) among girls.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Kuwait?
Because they count different people. PACI Kuwait — most common newborn names (top-10 ranked) (2025) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is فاطمة. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Sara. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Is there one naming system in Kuwait?
No — 2 are described on this page (Arabic, Yemeni and Gulf Tribal), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Kuwait”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/KW (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from PACI Kuwait — most common newborn names (top-10 ranked).