Shifaa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SHI-fa
- Origin
- Arabic
Shifaa is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “healing, cure”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.
What does Shifaa mean?
Arabic: spelling of Shifa
“healing, cure”
Arabic for healing; the Quran calls itself a shifa, a healing for what is in people's hearts.
Meaning borrowed from Shifa.
Is Shifaa a girl's or a boy's name?
Shifaa is a girls' name.
How popular is Shifaa in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2011, with 6 girls.
Half of all the girls named Shifaa in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Shifaa in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 6 | #3,737 |
| 2010 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,724 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 1 | #5,054 |
Names like Shifaa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Safaa, Zainab, Hafsa, Hiba, Ayah, Safiya, Rahma, Abeeha, Nusaybah, Sama, Huda
Names related to Shifaa
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, “Shifaa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/shifaa, updated 20 October 2026.