Hafsah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- HAF-sa
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #590 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #4,660 for girls
Hafsah is a girls' name of Arabic origin. In 2025 it ranked 590th for girls in the UK (72 babies) and 4,660th for girls in the US (29 babies).
What does Hafsah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Hafsa
Fuller spelling of Hafsa, after Hafsa bint Umar, a wife of the Prophet Muhammad.
Is Hafsah a girl's or a boy's name?
Hafsah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 72 girls in the UK and 29 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Hafsah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 590th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 72 about 1 in 3,900 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 6% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 72 girls in the UK were named Hafsah, making it the 590th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 539th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 147 girls.
Half of all the girls named Hafsah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2004 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 332 girls in the UK were given Hafsah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #193, up from #590 for this spelling alone.
- Hafsa 260
- Hafsah 72
Among girls in 2025, it was 580th in England and Wales and 632nd in Scotland.
Hafsah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #590 |
| 2024 | 79 | #547 |
| 2023 | 65 | #623 |
| 2022 | 68 | #613 |
| 2021 | 78 | #563 |
| 2020 | 82 | #539 |
| 2019 | 75 | #584 |
| 2018 | 73 | #617 |
| 2017 | 103 | #472 |
| 2016 | 91 | #517 |
| 2015 | 107 | #456 |
| 2014 | 109 | #444 |
| 2013 | 102 | #455 |
| 2012 | 124 | #416 |
| 2011 | 107 | #450 |
| 2010 | 134 | #374 |
| 2009 | 136 | #359 |
| 2008 | 130 | #380 |
| 2007 | 132 | #365 |
| 2006 | 147 | #329 |
| 2005 | 136 | #330 |
| 2004 | 117 | #363 |
| 2003 | 111 | #367 |
| 2002 | 125 | #323 |
| 2001 | 89 | #400 |
| 2000 | 88 | #404 |
| 1999 | 63 | #511 |
| 1998 | 51 | #586 |
| 1997 | 52 | #567 |
| 1996 | 36 | #709 |
How popular is Hafsah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,660th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 29 about 1 in 55,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 31% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 29 girls in the US were named Hafsah, making it the 4,660th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,846th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 43 girls. It first appears in the records in 1996.
Half of all the girls named Hafsah in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 177 girls in the US were given Hafsah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,145, up from #4,660 for this spelling alone.
- Hafsa 148
- Hafsah 29
Hafsah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,660 |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,575 |
| 2023 | 30 | #4,562 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,169 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,087 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,846 |
| 2019 | 25 | #5,161 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,236 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,817 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,129 |
| 2015 | 29 | #4,724 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,623 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,753 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,140 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,061 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,638 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,377 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,571 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,094 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,838 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,432 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,740 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,571 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,763 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,817 |
| 2000 | 18 | #5,932 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,233 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,099 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,801 |
Names like Hafsah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Zainab, Aaliyah, Hiba, Nusaybah, Ayah, Sumayyah, Farah, Ruqayyah, Rahma, Safaa, Aaminah
Other spellings of Hafsah
Names related to Hafsah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
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, “Hafsah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/hafsah, updated 20 October 2026.