Wafa
- #8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births
- Peak · girls
- 1983 · 12 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 481since 1974
Wafa over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Wafa has never cracked the top 5,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,362 | 12 |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 |
| 2020 | — | |
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| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 |
| 2017 | #7,442 | 15 |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 |
| 2014 | #7,636 | 15 |
| 2013 | #10,235 | 10 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 |
| 2011 | #11,181 | 9 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 |
| 2007 | #9,007 | 13 |
| 2006 | #8,237 | 14 |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 |
| 2004 | #7,077 | 16 |
| 2003 | #7,998 | 13 |
| 2002 | #8,837 | 11 |
| 2001 | #6,956 | 15 |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 |
| 1999 | #6,191 | 16 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 |
| 1990 | #6,465 | 13 |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 |
| 1983 | #5,457 | 12 |
| 1982 | #6,371 | 10 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 |
| 1979 | #7,313 | 8 |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 |
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| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 |
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First appearance
1974
The first year at least five girls were named Wafa! It came in at #7,680, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1978, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Wafa is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Wafa in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Wafa
Momentum · girls
Brand new
- 768 spots since 2024 (#7,594 → #8,362)
- 2,504 spots since 2015 (#10,866 → #8,362)
Rise & fade · girls
9 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 1983 at #5,457 (12 births)
- Births halved by 1987, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 110,864
- Highest: 1 in 110,864 girls born in 1999 were named Wafa (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #5,457 in 1983, was only 1 in 139,217 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 24.5% of all girls named Wafa (118) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 19 | #7,313 (1979) | #8,248 |
| 1980s | 97 | #5,457 (1983) | #7,068 |
| 1990s | 103 | #6,191 (1999) | #8,519 |
| 2000s | 118 | #6,956 (2001) | #9,408 |
| 2010s | 84 | #7,442 (2017) | #10,341 |
| 2020s | 60 | #7,594 (2024) | #8,516 |
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.
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