Arfah
Girl · AR-fa · Arabic
Arfah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “highest, most exalted”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).
What does Arfah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Arfa; Arabic, via Urdu
“highest, most exalted”
Pakistani prodigy Arfa Karim became the world's youngest Microsoft Certified Professional in 2004, aged nine.
- Say it
- AR-fa
Meaning borrowed from Arfa.
Is Arfah a girl's or a boy's name?
Arfah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Arfah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,276among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 50% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Arfah, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 13 girls.
Half of all the girls named Arfah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2012 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 31 girls in the UK were given Arfah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,018, up from #4,276 for this spelling alone.
- Arfa 26
- Arfah 5
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Arfah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 13 | #2,210 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 1 | #5,540 |
Names like Arfah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ayah Safa Nusaybah Zainab Aaliyah Hafsa Hiba Abeeha Aafiyah Afrah Azeemah Izzah
Other spellings of Arfah
Names related to Arfah
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