Nafisah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- na-FEE-sa
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Nafisah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “precious, valuable”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Nafisah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Nafisa
“precious, valuable”
Sayyida Nafisa, a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad famed for her learning, is buried in a well-known Cairo mosque.
Meaning borrowed from Nafisa.
Is Nafisah a girl's or a boy's name?
Nafisah 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 Nafisah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 25% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Nafisah, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2000, with 18 girls.
Half of all the girls named Nafisah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2000 and 2010. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
In 2025, 19 girls in the UK were given Nafisah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,417, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
- Nafisa 16
- Nafisah 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Nafisah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 5 | #4,250 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,719 |
| 2012 | 9 | #2,887 |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 9 | #2,741 |
| 2009 | 12 | #2,153 |
| 2008 | 14 | #1,943 |
| 2007 | 14 | #1,874 |
| 2006 | 14 | #1,764 |
| 2005 | 11 | #2,061 |
| 2004 | 17 | #1,399 |
| 2003 | 10 | #1,954 |
| 2002 | 17 | #1,280 |
| 2001 | 14 | #1,461 |
| 2000 | 18 | #1,182 |
| 1999 | 12 | #1,576 |
| 1998 | 16 | #1,289 |
| 1997 | 11 | #1,664 |
| 1996 | 15 | #1,309 |
Names like Nafisah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Hibah, Farah, Aakifah, Sumayyah, Ruqayyah, Nusaybah, Nabeelah, Umamah, Aaminah, Azeemah, Samah
Other spellings of Nafisah
Names related to Nafisah
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, “Nafisah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nafisah, updated 20 October 2026.