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Hanifa

#6,191 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Hanif

Hanifa has been given to 293 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #6,191 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Hanifa, 2025

1 in 174,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hanifa: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Hanif

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hanifa means

Hanifa is a feminine form of Hanif.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Hanifa → Hanif. The family’s meaning is “true believer, righteous (person)”, recorded in English with the source elements ḥanīf.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hanif.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 293 girls were recorded with the name Hanifa between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2024; its best national rank was #4,808 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,159 in 2020 to #6,191 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,226 in 2015 to #6,191 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hanifa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 84,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,191
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hanifa 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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hanifa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hanifas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hanifa was born before 2018 — so the typical Hanifa is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
293
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Choose a decade

2010s — 41.6% of all recorded uses (122).

Is Hanifa 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
−1,383
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−32
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,035
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.11×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
67.9%
Peak was 2024 (28)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,808
2024

Spellings of Hanifa

Hanifa is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 42.3% against Hanifa's 0.06%.

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 Hanifa is used

Across 1910–2025, Hanifa was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 962,031 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. Hanifa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hanifa around the world

Where Hanifa 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
  • France
    1950–2025
    #1,887
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2004–2004
    #700
    in 2004

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.

Hanifa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,191
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 32
Best rank ever
#4,808
2024
Peak year
2024
28 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
293
Count in 2025
19

Names similar to Hanifa

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

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Sibling names for Hanifa

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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