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Wafa

#8,824 in 2025Girls' name

Loyalty, faithfulness

Wafa has been given to 481 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #8,824 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1999, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Wafa, 2025

1 in 276,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wafa: meaning, origin, and history

Loyalty, faithfulness

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wafa means

Wafa means “loyalty, faithfulness”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 481 girls were recorded with the name Wafa between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1999; its best national rank was #5,813 in 1983.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,786 in 2015 to #8,824 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 Wafa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,824
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wafa 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wafa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wafas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wafa was born before 2002 — so the typical Wafa is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
24.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
481
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 24.5% of all recorded uses (118).

Is Wafa 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
−898
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,962
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.0%
Peak was 1999 (16)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,813
1983

Spellings of Wafa

Wafa is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 17.8% against Wafa's 0.02%.

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 Wafa is used

Across 1910–2025, Wafa was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,250,640 across all states with data.

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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. Wafa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Wafa around the world

Where Wafa 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
    1997–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • France
    1966–2025
    #3,360
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2020
    #3,144
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #801
    in 2010

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.

Wafa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,824
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,813
1983
Peak year
1999
16 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
481
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Wafa

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

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Sibling names for Wafa

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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