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Afifa

#10,940 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Afif

Afifa has been given to 131 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #10,940 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Afifa, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Afifa: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Afif

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Afifa means

Afifa is a feminine form of Afif.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Afifa → Afif. The family’s meaning is “chaste”, recorded in the naming reference for Afif.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Afif.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 131 girls were recorded with the name Afifa between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2006; its best national rank was #9,426 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,490 in 2020 to #10,940 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,041 in 2015 to #10,940 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.

How common is Afifa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,940
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Afifa 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Afifa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Afifas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Afifa was born before 2016 — so the typical Afifa is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
35.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
131
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Choose a decade

2020s — 35.9% of all recorded uses (47).

Is Afifa 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
−1,374
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,550
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,101
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
72.7%
Peak was 2006 (11)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
52.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,426
2016

Spellings of Afifa

Afifa is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 32.3% against Afifa's 0.02%.

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 Afifa is used

Across 1910–2025, Afifa was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Afifa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Afifa around the world

Where Afifa 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
    1996–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    1972–2024
    #5,006
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2017–2020
    #3,347
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    2001–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Afifa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,940
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,550
Best rank ever
#9,426
2016
Peak year
2006
11 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
131
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Afifa

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

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Sibling names for Afifa

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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