# Awais (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/awais/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 142 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 142 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,157, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 8 | 7,502 |
| 2001 | 8 | 7,592 |
| 2002 | 12 | 5,760 |
| 2005 | 10 | 7,162 |
| 2006 | 8 | 8,805 |
| 2007 | 6 | 11,058 |
| 2009 | 6 | 11,139 |
| 2011 | 6 | 10,944 |
| 2012 | 6 | 10,925 |
| 2013 | 6 | 10,877 |
| 2017 | 6 | 10,915 |
| 2019 | 6 | 10,934 |
| 2020 | 9 | 8,150 |
| 2024 | 5 | 12,545 |
| 2025 | 9 | 8,334 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 25 | 1,045 |
| 2012 | 31 | 947 |
| 2013 | 27 | 1,024 |
| 2014 | 12 | 1,819 |
| 2015 | 24 | 1,121 |
| 2016 | 21 | 1,271 |
| 2017 | 12 | 1,923 |
| 2018 | 8 | 2,445 |
| 2019 | 14 | 1,655 |
| 2020 | 11 | 1,935 |
| 2021 | 23 | 1,184 |
| 2022 | 16 | 1,534 |
| 2023 | 14 | 1,701 |
| 2024 | 14 | 1,758 |
| 2025 | 13 | 1,897 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.