Wafa — #7675 US girls' name
469 babies named Wafa in U.S. Social Security records since 1974, with the highest year being 1999. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 57% of names given to girls today.
25% of everyone ever named Wafa was born in this single decade.
16 babies were named Wafa in 1999 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Wafa
The Social Security Administration has registered 469 babies named Wafa between 1974 and 2024, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Wafa currently holds the #7675 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 16 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Wafa performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 118 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Wafa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Wafa in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Wafa 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 469 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.
Wafa at a glance
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Current rank
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Wafa popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1974
- Peak year (1999)
- 16
- Annual births at peak — across 51 years of records
Currently ranks #7675 among girls.
469 total births across 51 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1999 with 16 births in a single year.
Wafa by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 118 births that decade — 25% of Wafa's all-time total
Wafa decade highlights
- Peak decade 118 births
- Runner-up 103 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Wafa's strongest decade
118 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 25% of all-time use.
Wafa by state
Where Wafa concentrates geographically — total births since 1974
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 10 | 2.1% |
10 of 469 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 2.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 2.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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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, 1974–2024 (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.