Arwa is a graceful and evocative Muslim baby girl name meaning gazelle, a person of great beauty and grace, and one who is lithe, swift, and lovely. In Arabic, the gazelle is the classic symbol of beauty and graceful movement — slim, elegant, swift, and delicate. Arabic and Persian poetry for centuries has used the gazelle as the ultimate metaphor for beauty, and naming a daughter Arwa is connecting her to this most celebrated of natural symbols of grace and loveliness. The name is also historically significant as Arwa bint Kurayz was the mother of the third Caliph Uthman ibn Affan, giving it an additional connection to the early Islamic community and its most respected figures. A girl named Arwa carries both the natural beauty of the gazelle and a distinguished connection to the noble families of early Islam, blessed with grace, elegance, and a swift, light quality in everything she does.