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Afra

#5,415 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Afra has been given to 226 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #5,415 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Afra, 2025

1 in 144,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Afra: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Afra means

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

The naming story behind Afra

One of the source’s documented entries for Afra records a meaning of whitish red.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 226 girls were recorded with the name Afra between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2025; its best national rank was #5,415 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,263 in 2020 to #5,415 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 Afra?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 69,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,415
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Afra 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 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Afra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Afras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Afra was born before 2012 — so the typical Afra is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
33.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
226
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Choose a decade

2020s — 33.2% of all recorded uses (75).

Is Afra 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
+2,183
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,848
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (23)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,415
2025

Spellings of Afra

Afra is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 18.3% against Afra'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 Afra is used

Across 1910–2025, Afra was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,084,400 across all states with data.

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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. Afra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Afra around the world

Where Afra 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
    #2,006
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    2008–2025
    #1,484
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2002–2002
    #730
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Afra by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,415
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,848
Best rank ever
#5,415
2025
Peak year
2025
23 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
226
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Afra

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

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Sibling names for Afra

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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