Muawiyah is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning “Howling bitch.” In England & Wales it was given to 4 boys in 2025.
Muawiyah belongs to the Muslim & Arabic tradition. Its meaning — “Howling bitch” — 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, Muawiyah first appears in Social Security records in 2017. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #11694 in 2019, and in 2024 0 babies received the name — 12 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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Muawiyah means “Howling bitch” in its Arabic roots. We check every meaning against published sources before it appears here.
Muawiyah is a boy name. In England & Wales, 4 babies received the name in 2025.
Muawiyah comes from the Muslim & Arabic tradition.
Muawiyah first appears in US records in 2017. Its best-ever ranking was #11694 in 2019, and 0 babies were given the name in 2024.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. England & Wales figures are from the Office for National Statistics. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.
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