Hawa is a feminine

given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ...

. In Atayal, Hawa is a male given name. ''Hawa'' is the traditional

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and

Swahili Swahili may refer to: * Swahili language, a Bantu language officially used in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda and widely spoken in the African Great Lakes. * Swahili people, an ethnic group in East Africa. * Swahili culture, the culture of the Swahili p ...

name for the

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the more common version is Chava.

Notable people

Hawa Abdi Hawa Abdi Dhiblawe (, , 17 May 19475 August 2020) was a Somali human rights activist and physician. She was the founder and chairperson of the Dr. Hawa Abdi Foundation (DHAF), a non-profit organization. Early years Abdi was born in Mogadishu, a ...

, Somali doctor and activist * Hawa Abdi Samatar, former First Lady of Somalia *

Hawa Singh Honorary Captain Hawa Singh Sheoran (16 December 1937 in Umarwas, Punjab now Haryana – 14 August 2000, in Bhiwani, Haryana) was an Indian Heavyweight boxer, who dominated Indian and Asian amateur boxing for a decade in his weight class. He ...

, Indian boxer

Fictional characters

* Hawa (哈瓦), an Atayalic character in the Taiwanese television film ' (鐵拳巴圖).

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