Kashaf
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- KUH-shaf
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
Kashaf is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “revelation, unveiling”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies).
What does Kashaf mean?
Arabic: from kashf 'unveiling'
“revelation, unveiling”
Kashaf Murtaza is the heroine of Umera Ahmed's Pakistani novel and drama Zindagi Gulzar Hai.
Is Kashaf a girl's or a boy's name?
Kashaf is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Kashaf in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 47% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Kashaf, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,009th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 9 girls.
Half of all the girls named Kashaf in the UK since 1996 were born between 2007 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Kashaf in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 8 | #3,009 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 3 | #5,896 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 9 | #2,809 |
| 2013 | 5 | #4,267 |
| 2012 | 6 | #3,881 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 1 | #7,383 |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
| 2006 | 6 | #3,280 |
| 2005 | 6 | #3,133 |
| 2004 | 3 | #4,789 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 6 | #2,691 |
Names like Kashaf
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Zainab, Aaliyah, Hafsa, Ayah, Hiba, Rahaf, Rahma, Khadija, Safaa, Nusaybah, Sumayyah
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) 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, “Kashaf: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kashaf, updated 20 October 2026.