Mawiyya (or Mavia, d. c. 425) was the Arab queen of the Tanukhids — a confederation of Christian Arabs in 4th-c. Syria-Arabia. After her husband's death (c. 375), she led a major revolt against Emperor Valens of Rome, personally commanding cavalry into battle, defeating Roman armies repeatedly and forcing the empire to negotiate. One of the only Arab leaders ever to defeat Rome on the battlefield.
Featured in Sozomen's Ecclesiastical History.
Mawiyya 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mawiyya reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.