Arfa
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 26 babies a year in England and Wales.
Arfa by the numbers
In 2025, 26 babies in England and Wales were named Arfa. In the US, 17 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 22 babies in 2012, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Arfa
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Arfa. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Ariamelody, air; lioness7,160 in the US (2017)
- Aryanoble; honorable; aryan2,201 in the US (2017)
- Arwafemale mountain goat or ibex133 in England and Wales (2025)
- Arabrings rain; the eagle constellation78 in the US (2017)
- Arfahhigh or elevated5 in England and Wales (2025)
- Arifaknowing or learned; feminine form of Arif5 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Arfa
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