Harfateh
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- har-FA-teh
- Origin
- Punjabi
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,537 for boys
Harfateh is a boys' name of Punjabi origin, meaning “victory of God”. In 2025 it ranked 1,537th for boys in the UK (18 babies).
What does Harfateh mean?
Punjabi: Sikh name: Har + fateh
“victory of God”
Combines Har, God, with fateh, victory, a word heard in the Sikh greeting 'Waheguru ji ki Fateh'.
Is Harfateh a girl's or a boy's name?
Harfateh is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Harfateh in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,537th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 18 about 1 in 17,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 225% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 18 boys in the UK were named Harfateh, making it the 1,537th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,108th.
2025 had the most boys named Harfateh of any year since it first appeared, in 2015.
Half of all the boys named Harfateh in the UK since 1996 were born between 2020 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among boys in 2025, it was 1,465th in England and Wales.
Harfateh in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #1,537 |
| 2024 | 10 | #2,328 |
| 2023 | 11 | #2,155 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,195 |
| 2021 | 6 | #3,179 |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,108 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 6 | #3,162 |
| 2017 | 5 | #3,608 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 6 | #3,149 |
Names like Harfateh
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad, Huzaifa, Abdullah, Musa, Mustafa, Ibrahim, Zayd, Amir, Umar, Zayaan, Fateh, Hamza
More Punjabi names
Asees, Gurbaaz, Nirvair, Gurfateh, Jind, Baani, Akaal, Gurnawab, Jujhar, Ajooni, Mannat, Ekam, Gurniwaz, Gurnaaz, Gursanjh, Avleen
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, “Harfateh: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/harfateh, updated 20 October 2026.