Entry № 2349 · Tibetan origin

Dawa Dawa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DAH-wah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Tibetan
Meaning
"Moon"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Tibetan)

A name that means "moon".

Dawa (ཟླ་བ) is the Tibetan word for "moon" — also the word for "Monday" (the moon's day).

Dawa is widely used in the Tibetan diaspora.

Moon. The Tibetan lunar.

The name in its native script.

ཟླ་བ
Transliteration
Zla-ba
Pronunciation
/ ˈdɑː.wə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dawa stands.

Dawa 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.

Dawas before her.

Real people
Dawa Yangzum Sherpa
Nepali mountaineer.
born 1990
In fiction

Names connected to Dawa.

The number behind Dawa.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dawa reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.