Afomia
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ah-FOH-mee-ah
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Afomia is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “well spoken”. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Afomia mean?
Greek: Ethiopian (Amharic) form of Euphemia
“well spoken”
Ethiopian Orthodox form of Euphemia; St Afomia (Euphemia) is honoured with feast days in the Ethiopian Church.
Is Afomia a girl's or a boy's name?
Afomia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Afomia in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Afomia, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 2008.
Half of all the girls named Afomia in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Afomia in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,276 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,405 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,283 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,872 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,004 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,675 |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
Names like Afomia
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amoura, Amora, Anabia, Alaya, Amira, Ayra, Azariah, Alaia, Alessia, Azara, Azari, Alara
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, Sophia, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Afomia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/afomia, updated 20 October 2026.