Entry № 941 · Arabic origin

Arwa Arwa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AR-wah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Female mountain goat (Queen Arwa al-Sulayhi Yemeni 11th c.)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "female mountain goat (queen arwa al-sulayhi yemeni 11th c.)".

Arwa is from the Arabic أروى (Arwā — female mountain goat, graceful). Arwa is one of the Arabic feminine names — central to traditional Muslim heritage.

Female mountain goat (Arabic).

The name in its native script.

أروى
Transliteration
Arwā
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑːr.wə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Arwa stands.

Arwa does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Arwas before her.

Real people
Queen Arwa al-Sulayhi
Yemeni queen + Sulayhid dynasty ruler ~70 years + al-Sayyida al-Hurra + Hujjah Proof of the Imam only woman in Ismaili history.
1048 – 1138 CE
In fiction
Arwa bint al-Harith
Aunt of Prophet Muhammad.

Names connected to Arwa.

The number behind Arwa.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Arwa reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.