Arifa
#10,190 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Arifa has been given to 42 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #10,190 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Arifa, 2025
1 in 368,000
Arifa 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Arifa?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 179,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #10,190
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Arifa 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arifa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Arifas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Arifa was born before 2020 — so the typical Arifa is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 52.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 64.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 42
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 52.4% of all recorded uses (22).
Is Arifa 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +3,435
- 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 (9)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.7% average annual change
Spellings of Arifa
Arifa is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 22.3% against Arifa'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.
Arifa around the world
Where Arifa 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#4,201in 2025
- France1976–1976#2,371in 1976
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Arifa by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Arifa
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Arifa
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.