Meaning not yet researched.
Wafa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #5,815 in 1983.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #5,815 in 1983; #8,826 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Wafa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,826 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1983, at #5,815.
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Wafa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #5,815 in 1983 · most girls in one year: 16 (2004).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Wafa, making it the 8,826th most common girls’ name of the year, down 895 places from #7,931 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 14 girls named Wafa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,815, reached in 1983. The most girls given the name in a single year was 16, in 2004. For comparison, it was #11,791 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wafa in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 6 babies. In all, 481 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 118 babies named Wafa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 86 US girls were named Wafa; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 15. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,826 | — | — |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,931 | — | — |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,271 | — | — |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,502 | — | — |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,510 | — | — |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,776 | — | — |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,819 | — | — |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,791 | — | — |
| 2014 | 15 | #8,038 | — | — |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,961 | — | — |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,157 | — | — |
| 2011 | 9 | #12,101 | — | — |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,883 | — | — |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,413 | — | — |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,561 | — | — |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,517 | — | — |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,697 | — | — |
| 2005 | 11 | #10,100 | — | — |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,378 | — | — |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,478 | — | — |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,448 | — | — |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,308 | — | — |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,539 | — | — |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,472 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,387 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #9,001 | — | — |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,564 | — | — |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,485 | — | — |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,656 | — | — |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,708 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #13,286 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,480 | — | — |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,857 | — | — |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,947 | — | — |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,890 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,280 | — | — |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,147 | — | — |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,948 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #9,126 | — | — |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,815 | — | — |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,875 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,388 | — | — |
| 1980 | 8 | #8,154 | — | — |
| 1979 | 8 | #8,043 | — | — |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,427 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,742 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).