Awais comes from the ModernAmerican / InventedVariant tradition, meaning "Active" or "One who returns".
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How popular is Awais?
2002peak year
The name Awais reached its peak in 2002, with 12 registrations (ranked #5759). It had only entered records 12 years earlier, in 1990. Since the peak, the name has eased to well outside the top 1,000 (around #10621) today, averaging about 6 new babies per year. Across all years on record, approximately 133 American babies have carried this name.
Year-by-year registrations1880–2024 · U.S. Social Security data
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