Afaf — girls' name

What the Data Says About Afaf

The Social Security Administration has registered 52 babies named Afaf between 1985 and 2021, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Afaf currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 8 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Afaf performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 25 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Afaf shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Afaf in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 52 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.