Musfirah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MUS-fi-ra
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,868 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #5,098 for girls
Musfirah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “shining, bright”. In 2025 it ranked 1,868th for girls in the UK (16 babies) and 5,098th for girls in the US (25 babies).
What does Musfirah mean?
Arabic
“shining, bright”
A Quranic word describing faces 'shining' with joy on the Day of Judgement, in Surah Abasa.
Is Musfirah a girl's or a boy's name?
Musfirah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 girls in the UK and 25 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Musfirah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,868th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 16 about 1 in 17,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 30% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 16 girls in the UK were named Musfirah, making it the 1,868th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,268th.
2025 had the most girls named Musfirah of any year since it first appeared, in 2005.
Half of all the girls named Musfirah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2016 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 20 girls in the UK were given Musfirah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,359, up from #1,868 for this spelling alone.
- Musfirah 16
- Musfira 4
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,809th in England and Wales.
Musfirah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #1,868 |
| 2024 | 14 | #2,057 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 8 | #3,082 |
| 2020 | 12 | #2,268 |
| 2019 | 6 | #3,738 |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 6 | #3,774 |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 5 | #4,390 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 1 | #7,377 |
| 2008 | 1 | #7,383 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 5 | #3,543 |
How popular is Musfirah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,098th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 25 about 1 in 64,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 336% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 25 girls in the US were named Musfirah, making it the 5,098th most popular name for girls. It first appears in the records in 2014.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most girls named Musfirah of any year since it first appeared, in 2014.
Half of all the girls named Musfirah in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.
Musfirah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,098 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
Names like Musfirah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nusaybah, Safa, Ayah, Ruqayyah, Aaliyah, Zainab, Abeeha, Aafiyah, Umaymah, Sumayyah, Azeemah, Hafsa
Other spellings of Musfirah
Musfira
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, “Musfirah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/musfirah, updated 20 October 2026.