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How popular is the name Nawal?
Births per year, rank history and how many Nawals are alive today.
Nawal (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 1110th in 2025 and given to 30 babies. The name peaked in 2010, when 36 babies were given the name, the 946th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 2178 in 2022 before climbing back to the 1110th place it holds today. Numbers have been rising in recent years.
The Nawal you are most likely to meet is around 17 years old - or else around 2: the name has two living generations. Half of all Nawals born in England and Wales are between 9 and 22, and there are at least 680 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Nawal - on average, only one in every 464 such rooms contains a Nawal.
How many babies are named Nawal each year?
Where does Nawal rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Nawal most popular?
Nawal peaked in 2010, when 36 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Nawal?
At least 680 people named Nawal born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Nawal?
Most living Nawals are between 9 and 22; the most common age is about 17. There is a second cluster around 2.
Is Nawal becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.