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
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Grammatical form
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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

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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.