Aafia

Where Aafia comes from

From Urdu عافی ('āfī), from Arabic عَافِيَة (ʕāfiya).
— Wiktionary's entry for Aafia
  • Urdu
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 2015
    First appearance
    #14,482 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2024
    Peak, #10,271
    9 babies named Aafia — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Urdu.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.