Fawzia
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Meaning
success, victory, triumph; famously borne by Princess Fawzia of Egypt, who became Queen of Iran as the Shah's first wife
The story
Fawzia comes from the Arabic for triumph and victory, and history handed it to a princess whose life read like a fable with sharp edges. Princess Fawzia of Egypt, daughter of King Fuad and sister of King Farouk, was married in 1939 to the young crown prince of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and became Queen of Iran when he took the throne in 1941. Her beauty was legend: Cecil Beaton photographed her for Life magazine, and writers of the era reached for comparisons to the great film stars. The marriage, a dynastic arrangement between two thrones, dissolved within a decade, and she returned to Egypt, remarried quietly, and lived until 2013, long enough to see both monarchies fall. In the United States the name is a true rarity, barely a flicker in the records, regal history in three syllables.
How popular is Fawzia around the world?
In the United States, 5 babies were named Fawzia between 2020 and 2025. In England and Wales, 3 girls named Fawzia were born in 2025, ranked 5,927th among girls that year.
Fawzia is on the official records of the United States, England and Wales and Spain.
United States
1 in 4.4M
In the United States, 5 babies were named Fawzia between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Fawzia has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
England and Wales
1 in 200,000
In England and Wales, 3 girls named Fawzia were born in 2025, ranked 5,927th among girls that year.
The count never rose above 6 in a year, too few to chart.
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Spain
1 in 920,000
In Spain, 49 residents are named Fawzia, ranked 14,119th among women, with a mean age of 46.2 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
South Australia
last on record 1999
Fawzia is not on the 2017 record for South Australia, whose registry publishes every name given that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Not on the record in Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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