Aakifah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AA-ki-fa
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,961 for girls
Aakifah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “devoted; dedicated to worship”. In 2025 it ranked 1,961st for girls in the UK (15 babies).
What does Aakifah mean?
Arabic: feminine of Aakif
“devoted; dedicated to worship”
From the same Arabic root as i'tikaf, the practice of staying in a mosque for devotion.
Is Aakifah a girl's or a boy's name?
Aakifah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aakifah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,961st among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 15 about 1 in 19,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 221% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 15 girls in the UK were named Aakifah, making it the 1,961st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 16 girls.
Half of all the girls named Aakifah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2004 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 20 girls in the UK were given Aakifah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,359, up from #1,961 for this spelling alone.
- Aakifah 15
- Akifah 5
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,892nd in England and Wales.
Aakifah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #1,961 |
| 2024 | 14 | #2,057 |
| 2023 | 16 | #1,873 |
| 2022 | 11 | #2,450 |
| 2021 | 12 | #2,325 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 7 | #3,389 |
| 2015 | 8 | #3,114 |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2012 | 7 | #3,471 |
| 2011 | 6 | #3,737 |
| 2010 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 2009 | 9 | #2,695 |
| 2008 | 9 | #2,663 |
| 2007 | 7 | #3,060 |
| 2006 | 8 | #2,657 |
| 2005 | 11 | #2,061 |
| 2004 | 11 | #1,949 |
| 2003 | 12 | #1,730 |
| 2002 | 13 | #1,553 |
| 2001 | 10 | #1,832 |
| 2000 | 8 | #2,097 |
| 1999 | 4 | #3,374 |
| 1998 | 7 | #2,304 |
| 1997 | 4 | #3,345 |
| 1996 | 1 | #5,054 |
Names like Aakifah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Azeemah, Sumayyah, Nusaybah, Aafiyah, Umaymah, Umamah, Safa, Aaminah, Ammarah, Ruqayyah, Halima
Other spellings of Aakifah
Akifah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Aakifah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aakifah, updated 20 October 2026.