Sifat
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SI-fat
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,416 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Sifat is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “quality; praise”. In 2025 it ranked 1,416th for girls in the UK (23 babies) and 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Sifat mean?
Arabic: Arabic sifa, via Persian and Punjabi
“quality; praise”
From Arabic sifa, 'attribute' or 'quality'; in Punjabi and Urdu the word is also used for praise.
Is Sifat a girl's or a boy's name?
Sifat is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 23 girls in the UK and 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sifat in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,416th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 23 about 1 in 12,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Newly popular new in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 23 girls in the UK were named Sifat, making it the 1,416th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2023, with 29 girls.
Half of all the girls named Sifat in the UK since 1996 were born between 2023 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,362nd in England and Wales.
Sifat in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #1,416 |
| 2024 | 28 | #1,248 |
| 2023 | 29 | #1,209 |
| 2022 | 17 | #1,794 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
How popular is Sifat in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 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, 9 girls in the US were named Sifat, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2024, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 2021.
Sifat in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
Names like Sifat
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Rehmat, Ayah, Ibadat, Hiba, Hafsa, Nusaybah, Safaa, Zainab, Rahma, Sumayyah, Safiya
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), 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, “Sifat: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sifat, updated 20 October 2026.