Afifa
Afifa was given to 8 girls in 2025, #10,940 among girls’ names; 131 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Afifa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Afifa?
#10,940 among girls’ names, 2025
Afifa rose from #13,041 in 2015 to #10,940 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 5.0 per million.
11 babies in 2006, the peak
Afifa peaked in 2006, when 11 girls were given it, #9,911 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,940 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,566 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,201 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,362 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,570 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,490 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,745 | 6.0 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,970 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,426 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,041 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #16,936 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,299 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,284 | 3.3 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,911 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,523 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,480 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,434 | 2.8 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,415 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Afifa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Afifa has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Afifa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Afifa, and how old are they?
An estimated 130 Americans named Afifa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 478 people named Afifa (476 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 85 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 3,812 babies since 1880, Afifa is the sixth most given (3.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 170 babies (4.7%), again the sixth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Afifa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Afifa and names like it
- Compare Afifa and AoifeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAfifa peaked in 2006.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Afifa since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Afifa.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Afifa alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.