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Afia

#5,101 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Afia has been given to 621 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #5,101 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Afia, 2025

1 in 133,000

Afia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Afia: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Arabic, Akan and Urdu

What Afia means

Afia has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

Origin, language, and formation

Afia is used in English. Its origins include Arabic, Akan and Urdu.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aafia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 621 girls were recorded with the name Afia between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 2024; its best national rank was #4,559 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,646 in 2020 to #5,101 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,656 in 2015 to #5,101 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Afia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 64,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,101
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Afia 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 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Afia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Afias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Afia was born before 2010 — so the typical Afia is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
28.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
621
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 28.8% of all recorded uses (179).

Is Afia 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
−542
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−455
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+555
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.09×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
83.3%
Peak was 2024 (30)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,559
2024

Spellings of Afia

Afia is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 21.3% against Afia'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.

Where Afia is used

Across 1910–2025, Afia was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 258,201 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Afia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Afia around the world

Where Afia 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
    1997–2025
    #1,454
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2019–2019
    #650
    in 2019
  • France
    1987–2025
    #3,418
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2015–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Afia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,101
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 455
Best rank ever
#4,559
2024
Peak year
2024
30 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
621
Count in 2025
25

Names similar to Afia

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

AfiyaFiaAfifaAfiyahSafiaZofiaAfinaTasfiaAfiAnasofiaAafiaRafiaSufiaZsofiaSoffiaEfiaAfifahNafiaAlfiaAsfiaTzofiaAnnasofiaSofiaEmmasofia

Sibling names for Afia

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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