Aswad is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning “black.” It is a rare choice in US records.
Aswad at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Muslim & Arabic
Meaning
“black”
About the name Aswad
Aswad belongs to the Muslim & Arabic tradition. Its meaning — “black” — is the sense carried by its Arabic roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Aswad first appears in Social Security records in 1971. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #2612 in 1973, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 129 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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