Entry № 10365 · Arabic origin

Tawakkol Tawakkol — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tah-WAH-kol /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Reliance on God (first Arab woman Nobel Peace)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "reliance on god (first arab woman nobel peace)".

Tawakkol (توكل) is the Arabic word for "reliance upon God" — central concept of Islamic spirituality (Quran 65:3). Tawakkol Karman (born 1979) is the Yemeni journalist and activist who led the 2011 Yemeni Revolution as part of the Arab Spring — chairwoman of "Women Journalists Without Chains." The first Arab woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize (2011), and at 32, the youngest Peace Prize laureate at the time.

Co-laureate with Leymah Gbowee and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

Reliance on God. First Arab woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize; led the 2011 Yemeni Revolution.

The name in its native script.

توكل
Transliteration
Tawakkul
Pronunciation
/ təˈwɑː.kəl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tawakkol stands.

Tawakkol 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.

Tawakkols before her.

Real people
Tawakkol Karman
Yemeni Nobel Peace laureate.
born 1979
In fiction
Tawakkol
Arab Spring memoir.

Names connected to Tawakkol.

The number behind Tawakkol.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tawakkol reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.