Afifah
given name · Indonesian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Afifah is a given name, most frequently recorded in Malaysia. It appears chiefly in Indonesian and Malay, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: pure; modest; decent;.
- MYMalaysia1 in 4.3K◐
- IDIndonesia1 in 8.9K
- BNBrunei1 in 3.8K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈8 ●
- Sources
- 128 ●
- 1 in 94K ◐
across 1 country
12K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin●
pure; modest; decent;
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #290 | 15,117 | 8.8K rec. | — | — | Afifah | 43 |
| ID Indonesia | #728 | 10,174 | 3K rec. | — | listed | Afifah | 128 |
| US United States | — | 180 | 151 rec. | — | 5 | Afifah | 43 |
| SG Singapore | — | 177 | 176 rec. | — | — | Afifah | 14 |
| AU Australia | — | 72 | 78 rec. | — | — | Afifah | 19 |
| PH Philippines | — | 68 | 28 rec. | — | — | Afifah | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 55 | 36 rec. | — | — | Afifah | 19 |
| IN India | — | 52 | 35 rec. | — | listed | Afifah | 16 |
| VN Vietnam | — | 30 | 32 rec. | — | — | Afifah | 4 |
| TM Turkmenistan | — | 16 | 40 rec. | — | — | Afifah | 1 |
| RU Russia | — | 15 | 1 rec. | — | — | Afifah | 4 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | 13 | 23 rec. | — | — | Afifah | 2 |
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Languages●
- Indonesian15K55%
- Malay7.9K28%
- English2.3K8%
- Arabic4322%
- Chinese2101%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesian | 15,405 | 55% |
| Malay | 7,871 | 28% |
| English | 2,270 | 8% |
| Arabic | 432 | 2% |
| Chinese | 210 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Afifah is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Pure, chaste,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name●
- Afifah Aliab. 1975IDIndonesian politicians
- Afifah Lora Hidayahtul Umamahb. 2003IDbadminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 8 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 8 | #586 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2003 | 5 | — |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
| SA Saudi Arabia | Dictionary of Islamic Names (2005) | — | — | — |
| SA Saudi Arabia | Muslim Baby Names (Nishāt, 2000) | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
| EG Egypt | WGND 2.0 — Egypt given names | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 10 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Afifah?
- We estimate roughly 8 people bear Afifah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Afifah have the most bearers?
- Afifah is most frequently recorded in Malaysia, where it is most often spelled afifah.
- How common is Afifah compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Afifah is the 290th most common given name of 325,158 given names recorded there.
- Is Afifah a male or female name?
- Afifah is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Afifah mean?
- Recorded meaning: pure; modest; decent;
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Afifah” — the 290th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.