Nafisah — girls' name
126 babies named Nafisah in U.S. Social Security records since 1981, with the highest year being 2001. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
50% of everyone ever named Nafisah was born in this single decade.
11 babies were named Nafisah in 2001 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Nafisah
The Social Security Administration has registered 126 babies named Nafisah between 1981 and 2008, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nafisah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 11 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Nafisah performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 63 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Nafisah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Nafisah 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 126 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.
Nafisah at a glance
Last recorded 2008Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Nafisah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2008–1981
- Peak year (2001)
- 11
- Annual births at peak — across 28 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2008.
126 total births across 28 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2001 with 11 births in a single year.
Nafisah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 63 births that decade — 50% of Nafisah's all-time total
Nafisah decade highlights
- Peak decade 63 births
- Runner-up 41 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Nafisah's strongest decade
63 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 50% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1981–2008 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.