Afia
#5,099 for girls in 2025, 25 births
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 30 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 621since 1972
Afia over time
Rank among girls' names. Afia has never cracked the top 4,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,099 | 25 |
| 2024 | #4,560 | 30 |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 |
| 2022 | #6,984 | 16 |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 |
| 2020 | #4,648 | 28 |
| 2019 | #5,798 | 21 |
| 2018 | #6,521 | 18 |
| 2017 | #5,338 | 24 |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 |
| 2015 | #5,653 | 23 |
| 2014 | #7,636 | 15 |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 |
| 2012 | #6,576 | 19 |
| 2011 | #7,783 | 15 |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 |
| 2009 | #6,544 | 20 |
| 2008 | #8,965 | 13 |
| 2007 | #5,230 | 27 |
| 2006 | #6,840 | 18 |
| 2005 | #7,138 | 16 |
| 2004 | #5,969 | 20 |
| 2003 | #6,576 | 17 |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 |
| 1990 | — | |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 |
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| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 |
| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 |
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| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Afia! It came in at #6,558, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1980–1981, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Afia is popular in 1993
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#1,733 · 1 in 18,850
Best ever in a state: #1,517 in New York, 2004.
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #1,733 | 6 | 1 in 18,850 |
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See more about Afia
- 539 spots since 2024 (#4,560 → #5,099)
- 451 spots since 2020 (#4,648 → #5,099)
- 554 spots since 2015 (#5,653 → #5,099)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2024 at #4,560 (30 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 54,006 girls born in 2024 were named Afia (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 64,291 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 28.8% of all girls named Afia (179) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 48 | #6,484 (1975) | #8,232 |
| 1980s | 26 | #8,523 (1986) | #9,236 |
| 1990s | 66 | #6,622 (1993) | #10,922 |
| 2000s | 166 | #5,230 (2007) | #7,284 |
| 2010s | 179 | #5,338 (2017) | #6,909 |
| 2020s | 136 | #4,560 (2024) | #5,657 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Afia in 1993
Top girls' names in 1993
More about 1993
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1,809,072 girls got a published name in 1993; 1 in 139,159 of them was named Afia, which outranked 58.1% of the 15,801 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,264Zayna14
- #6,264Zelda14
- #6,264Zoee14
- #6,622Afia13
- #6,622Aarti13
- #6,622Airam13
- #6,622Akasha13
- #7,038Aesha12
- #7,038Airika12
- #7,038Aishia12
Tied with 415 names at #6,622; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.