Afifah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-FEE-fa
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Afifah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “chaste, virtuous”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Afifah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Afifa; feminine of Afif
“chaste, virtuous”
Feminine form of Afif, from the Arabic root for chastity and decency.
Meaning borrowed from Afifa.
Is Afifah a girl's or a boy's name?
Afifah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Afifah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,990among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling fastdown 67% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Afifah, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 11 girls.
2025 had more girls named Afifah than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Afifah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2003 and 2013. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
In 2025, 14 girls in the UK were given Afifah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,781, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
- Afifa 11
- Afifah 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Afifah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 7 | #3,321 |
| 2013 | 4 | #4,953 |
| 2012 | 7 | #3,471 |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 7 | #3,308 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 11 | #2,198 |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,724 |
| 2005 | 6 | #3,133 |
| 2004 | 6 | #2,957 |
| 2003 | 6 | #2,877 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 6 | #2,587 |
| 2000 | 6 | #2,554 |
| 1999 | 3 | #4,041 |
| 1998 | 4 | #3,310 |
| 1997 | 3 | #3,991 |
| 1996 | 4 | #3,289 |
Names like Afifah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aakifah Azeemah Hibah Umamah Farah Aaminah Umaymah Safia Aafiyah Samah Habiba Afrah
Other spellings of Afifah
Names related to Afifah
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra
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, “Afifah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/afifah, updated 20 October 2026.