Arfa
#6,872 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Arfa has been given to 214 babies in the U.S. since 2005. In 2025 it ranked #6,872 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 22 recorded.
Babies named Arfa, 2025
1 in 207,000
Arfa over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Arfa?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 207,000
- 16 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 100,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #6,872
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 143,620 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Arfa sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arfa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Arfas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Arfa was born before 2017 — so the typical Arfa is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 51.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 214
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 51.4% of all recorded uses (110).
Is Arfa 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
- −1,236
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,149
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,175
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.14×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 72.7%
- Peak was 2012 (22)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 46.6% average annual change
Spellings of Arfa
Arfa is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 21.8% against Arfa'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 Arfa is used
Across 1910–2025, Arfa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 633,759 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2New 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. Arfa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Arfa around the world
Where Arfa 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 & Wales1996–2025#1,229in 2025
- Scotland2012–2019#765in 2019
- Ireland2020–2020#700in 2020
- France2016–2023#6,662in 2023
- Canada2003–2024#3,457in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Arfa by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Arfa
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Arfa
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.