Arafat
A boys’ name of Arabic origin, meaning mountain or hill in mecca.
Babies a year
19
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#1406
19 babies
Arafat by the numbers
In 2025, 19 babies in England and Wales were named Arafat. In the US, 6 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 13 babies in 2011, making it a 2010s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Arafat. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a mountain
Like Arafat, each of these has a mountain in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Aaronmountain of strength; exalted7,185 in the US (2017)
- Landonlong hill; open grassy hill6,390 in the US (2017)
- Brandonbeacon hill or gorse covered hill3,482 in the US (2017)
- Arlofortified hill; barberry tree2,083 in England and Wales (2025)
- Knoxround hill1,646 in the US (2017)
- Harlowrocky hill or army hill832 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Arafat
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