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Wafaa

#17,119 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Wafa

Wafaa has been given to 81 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #17,119 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Wafaa, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wafaa: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Wafa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wafaa means

Wafaa is a alternate transcription of Wafa.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Wafaa is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /wa.ˈfaːʔ/ for Wafaa.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Wafaa → Wafa. The family’s meaning is “loyalty, faithfulness”, recorded in the naming reference for Wafa.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Wafa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 81 girls were recorded with the name Wafaa between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2001; its best national rank was #12,004 in 2001.

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 Wafaa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#17,119
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wafaa 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wafaa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wafaas were born

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

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
42.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
81
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 42.0% of all recorded uses (34).

Is Wafaa 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
62.5%
Peak was 2001 (8)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#12,004
2001

Spellings of Wafaa

Wafaa is not the most common spelling — Wanda is, with 93.9% against Wafaa's 0.03%.

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.

Wafaa around the world

Where Wafaa 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
    2005–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • France
    1972–2025
    #6,973
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2007–2010
    #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.

Wafaa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#17,119
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#12,004
2001
Peak year
2001
8 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
81
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Wafaa

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

WafaSafaa

Sibling names for Wafaa

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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