Wafaa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- wa-FAH
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,101 for girls
Wafaa is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “faithfulness; loyalty”. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies).
What does Wafaa mean?
Arabic: spelling of Wafa; Arabic wafa'
“faithfulness; loyalty”
Meaning borrowed from Wafa.
Is Wafaa a girl's or a boy's name?
Wafaa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Wafaa in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,101among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 35,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 150% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Wafaa, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2021, with 8 girls.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years.
Half of all the girls named Wafaa in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 15 girls in the UK were given Wafaa or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,686, up from #3,101 for this spelling alone.
- Wafaa 8
- Wafa 7
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.
Wafaa in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #3,101 |
| 2024 | 7 | #3,381 |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 8 | #3,082 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 5 | #4,290 |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 5 | #4,141 |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 5 | #3,543 |
Names like Wafaa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Hiba Zainab Hafsa Safaa Rahma Ayah Nusaybah Abeeha Huda Safiya Aaliyah
Other spellings of Wafaa
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, “Wafaa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/wafaa, updated 20 October 2026.