Entry № 3211 · Arabic origin

Fadwa Fadwa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ FAHD-wah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Self-sacrifice (Fadwa Tuqan)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "self-sacrifice (fadwa tuqan)".

Her autobiography A Mountainous Journey is a work.

Self-sacrifice. The Mother of Palestinian Poetry.

The name in its native script.

فدوى
Transliteration
Fadwā
Pronunciation
/ ˈfɑːd.wɑː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Fadwa stands.

Fadwa 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.

Fadwas before her.

Real people
Fadwa Tuqan
Palestinian poet.
1917 – 2003
In fiction
Fadwa
Common in Arabic fiction.

Names connected to Fadwa.

The number behind Fadwa.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Fadwa reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.