Dawah as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Dawah

What is the meaning of the name Dawah ?

The baby name Dawah is a Female name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced Approx. "DAH-wah" — Arabic approx. /daʕ.wa/; common English approx. /ˈdɑːwə/.

Dawah is Arabic in Origin.

Dawah is an Arabic name drawn from دعوة (daʿwah), the feminine noun meaning “invitation, call,” especially the invitation to faith in Islamic tradition. Rooted in the triliteral d-ʿ-w “to call/summon,” it conveys ideals of outreach, guidance, and summoning to goodness. As a personal name it is relatively modern and rare, used mainly among Muslim families worldwide; when used in Arabic it is typically feminine because the underlying noun is grammatically feminine, though some communities treat it as unisex.

Spellings and variants include Da’wah, Da’wa, Dawaa, and Dawa; in Urdu and Persian it corresponds to دعوت. Related names and concepts are Duʿā’/Dua (“supplication”), Nida (“call”), and Daʿiyah (“one who invites/preacher”). Note that Dawa in Tibetan is an unrelated unisex name meaning “moon,” and in Swahili dawa means “medicine”; these homographs reflect distinct origins. Short forms such as Dawa appear in informal use.

⚙ Dawah is a rare name. It doesn't appear in any of the major national birth registries we track; we found only 47 recorded uses across 20 countries. Expect very few children to share this name.