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Nafisa

#7,775 in 2025Girls' name

Precious, valuable

Nafisa has been given to 631 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #7,775 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Nafisa, 2025

1 in 237,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nafisa: meaning, origin, and history

Precious, valuable

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nafisa means

Nafisa means “precious, valuable”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 631 girls were recorded with the name Nafisa between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2024; its best national rank was #4,448 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,719 in 2020 to #7,775 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,395 in 2015 to #7,775 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 Nafisa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,775
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nafisa 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nafisa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nafisas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nafisa was born before 2009 — so the typical Nafisa is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
76.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
631
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 31.5% of all recorded uses (199).

Is Nafisa 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
−3,327
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,056
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,380
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.70×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.8%
Peak was 2024 (32)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,448
2024

Spellings of Nafisa

Nafisa is not the most common spelling — Marisa is, with 22.4% against Nafisa's 0.29%.

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 Nafisa is used

Across 1910–2025, Nafisa was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 196,725 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 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. Nafisa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nafisa around the world

Where Nafisa 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
    #1,809
    in 2025
  • France
    1972–2021
    #4,579
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1993–2021
    #2,638
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Nafisa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,775
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,056
Best rank ever
#4,448
2024
Peak year
2024
32 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
631
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Nafisa

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

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Sibling names for Nafisa

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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