Afnaan
- Gender
- Mostly girls
- Say it
- af-NAAN
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
Afnaan is a name of Arabic origin, meaning “branches”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies).
What does Afnaan mean?
Arabic: spelling of Afnan
“branches”
The word appears in the Qur'an describing the spreading branches of the trees in the gardens of paradise.
Meaning borrowed from Afnan.
Is Afnaan a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Afnaan has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls and 4 boys in the UK.
How popular is Afnaan in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,935among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 27% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Afnaan, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 6 girls. 4 boys were also named Afnaan in 2025 (4,301st for boys).
Half of all the girls named Afnaan in the UK since 1996 were born between 2013 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 24 girls in the UK were given Afnaan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,199, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.
- Afnan 20
- Afnaan 4
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Afnaan in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 6 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,719 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 6 | #3,589 |
Names like Afnaan
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ayah Safa Zainab Abeeha Hafsa Hiba Nusaybah Aaliyah Rahma Amira Safaa Aafiyah
Other spellings of Afnaan
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza Kairo
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, “Afnaan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/afnaan, updated 20 October 2026.