Iffat
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- IF-fat
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Iffat is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “chastity, modesty, virtue”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Iffat mean?
Arabic: Urdu and Persian form of Arabic iffa
“chastity, modesty, virtue”
Queen Iffat, wife of King Faisal, was a pioneer of girls' education in Saudi Arabia.
Is Iffat a girl's or a boy's name?
Iffat is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Iffat in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 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, 3 girls in the UK were named Iffat, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2001, with 9 girls.
2025 had more girls named Iffat than any year since 2013.
Half of all the girls named Iffat in the UK since 1996 were born between 2000 and 2007. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Iffat in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 8 | #2,909 |
| 2008 | 4 | #4,742 |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,724 |
| 2005 | 5 | #3,543 |
| 2004 | 8 | #2,406 |
| 2003 | 3 | #4,560 |
| 2002 | 9 | #2,040 |
| 2001 | 9 | #1,974 |
| 2000 | 5 | #2,907 |
| 1999 | 5 | #2,912 |
| 1998 | 7 | #2,304 |
| 1997 | 5 | #2,896 |
| 1996 | 4 | #3,289 |
Names like Iffat
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Faiza, Saba, Farah, Hibah, Ilham, Salma, Ibadat, Safia, Samah, Fatma, Zeenat, Aysha
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
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, “Iffat: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/iffat, updated 20 October 2026.