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Aafia

#13,206 in 2025Girls' name

From Urdu عافی; literal meaning unconfirmed

Aafia has been given to 31 babies in the U.S. since 2015. In 2025 it ranked #13,206 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Aafia, 2025

1 in 553,000

Aafia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aafia: meaning, origin, and history

From Urdu عافی; literal meaning unconfirmed

Urdu

What Aafia means

Aafia is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Urdu عافی ('āfī), from Arabic عَافِيَة (ʕāfiya).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Aafia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Aafia is used in English. Its origins include Urdu.

Aafia comes through Urdu عافی and Arabic عَافِيَة.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 31 girls were recorded with the name Aafia between 2015 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2024; its best national rank was #10,267 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #15,084 in 2020 to #13,206 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #14,477 in 2015 to #13,206 in 2025.

How common is Aafia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,206
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aafia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aafia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aafias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aafia was born before 2021 — so the typical Aafia is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
80.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
31
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 80.6% of all recorded uses (25).

Is Aafia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−2,939
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,878
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,271
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 2024 (9)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,267
2024

Spellings of Aafia

Aafia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 41.0% against Aafia's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Aafia around the world

Where Aafia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2005–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Aafia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,206
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,878
Best rank ever
#10,267
2024
Peak year
2024
9 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
31
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Aafia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Aafia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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