75%RatingSave Gender Masculine Usage Hausa Meaning & History From Arabic أوّل (ʾawwal) meaning "first" [1]. It is sometimes added to the name of the first of multiple siblings who share the same given name. Related NamesFamily Tree·Details VariantLawali Categories birth, birth order, numeric meanings, palindromes Sources & References Wehr, Hans. A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic. Spoken Language Services, 1979, page 44.