Afsana
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- af-SAH-nah
- Origin
- Persian
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Afsana is a girls' name of Persian origin, meaning “story, tale”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Afsana mean?
Persian: Persian and Urdu afsana
“story, tale”
From the Persian word for a tale or legend, also used in Urdu, Hindi and Bengali.
Is Afsana a girl's or a boy's name?
Afsana is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Afsana in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1998, with 30 girls.
Half of all the girls named Afsana in the UK since 1996 were born between 1999 and 2008. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
Afsana in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,630 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 8 | #3,031 |
| 2013 | 14 | #2,061 |
| 2012 | 6 | #3,881 |
| 2011 | 8 | #3,041 |
| 2010 | 15 | #1,912 |
| 2009 | 6 | #3,603 |
| 2008 | 15 | #1,840 |
| 2007 | 19 | #1,477 |
| 2006 | 22 | #1,272 |
| 2005 | 11 | #2,061 |
| 2004 | 20 | #1,238 |
| 2003 | 20 | #1,216 |
| 2002 | 25 | #990 |
| 2001 | 16 | #1,325 |
| 2000 | 19 | #1,137 |
| 1999 | 28 | #861 |
| 1998 | 30 | #837 |
| 1997 | 22 | #1,022 |
| 1996 | 22 | #988 |
How popular is Afsana in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,360th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 130,000 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, 12 girls in the US were named Afsana, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. It first appears in the records in 1995.
2025 had the most girls named Afsana of any year since it first appeared, in 1995.
Half of all the girls named Afsana in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
Afsana in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,527 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,216 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,797 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,807 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,778 |
Names like Afsana
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Aaliyah, Abeeha, Hiba, Hafsa, Amira, Habiba, Halima, Afifa, Rahma, Areeba, Faiza
More Persian names
Jasper, Esther, Jasmine, Casper, Cyrus, Yasmin, Darius, Zorawar, Kiyan, Rumi, Yasmine, Kasper, Mahnoor, Dario, Arian, Arman
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Afsana: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/afsana, updated 20 October 2026.