Yashfa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- YASH-fa
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
Yashfa is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).
Where does Yashfa come from?
Pakistani name, perhaps related to Arabic shifa 'healing'
Is Yashfa a girl's or a boy's name?
Yashfa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yashfa in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,276th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady much the same
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Yashfa, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,566th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 15 girls.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years.
Half of all the girls named Yashfa in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Yashfa in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 8 | #3,076 |
| 2023 | 10 | #2,640 |
| 2022 | 15 | #1,957 |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 10 | #2,566 |
| 2019 | 7 | #3,340 |
| 2018 | 6 | #3,702 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 8 | #3,105 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 8 | #3,031 |
| 2013 | 1 | #7,690 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
Names like Yashfa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Hafsa, Hiba, Ayra, Rahma, Ayah, Abeeha, Zainab, Amira, Khadija, Ayla, Huda
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, “Yashfa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yashfa, updated 20 October 2026.