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Hafiz

#9,197 in 2025Boys' name

Guardian, keeper

Hafiz has been given to 136 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #9,197 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Hafiz, 2025

1 in 414,000

Hafiz over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hafiz: meaning, origin, and history

Guardian, keeper

Arabic

What Hafiz means

Hafiz means “guardian, keeper”, associated with ḥāfiẓ.

Origin, language, and formation

Hafiz is used in Albanian and Azerbaijani. Its origins include Arabic.

Hafiz comes through Arabic حَافِظ.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 136 boys were recorded with the name Hafiz between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2016; its best national rank was #6,691 in 1984.

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 Hafiz?

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 boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,197
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hafiz sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 Hafiz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hafizs were born

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

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
136
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.0% of all recorded uses (53).

Is Hafiz 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
+1,058
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
72.7%
Peak was 2016 (11)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,691
1984

Spellings of Hafiz

Hafiz is not the most common spelling — Hadi is, with 14.7% against Hafiz's 0.79%.

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.

Hafiz around the world

Where Hafiz 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
    1998–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1993–2024
    #4,407
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2006–2006
    #657
    in 2006

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

Hafiz by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,197
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,691
1984
Peak year
2016
11 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
136
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Hafiz

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

HafezHafeezHafidNafizHafford

Sibling names for Hafiz

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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