Hauwa

Syllable breakdown

Name meaning and origin

Origin

Hausa (Nigeria/Niger)

Meaning

the Hausa form of the name Eve — from the Arabic Hawwa, the mother of humanity in Islamic tradition, the wife of Adam and the first woman created by God; in Islam Hawwa is a respected figure, and her name is given with the understanding that it connects a daughter to the beginning of human life and to the mother of all people; among the Hausa the name Hauwa is one of the classic feminine names, widely given across generations and across all of the vast Hausa-speaking territory that stretches from northern Nigeria through Niger into Chad and Sudan; the name carries both its own beauty as a Hausa phonological form and the religious and narrative weight of its origin as the Islamic name for Eve

Gender

female

Also spelled

Hawa, Hawwa, Hauwa