Shafiqa

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Shafiqa is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: compassionate, kind-hearted, affectionate, tender, warm-hearted; fem. of Shafiq.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 980K◐
  • AFAfghanistan1 in 2.3K
  • MYMalaysia1 in 73K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈342 ●

across 7 countries

Sources
47 ●

6.7K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 131K ◐

Sweden

Meaning & origin●

compassionate, kind-hearted, affectionate, tender, warm-hearted; fem. of Shafiq

Sources 2

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Shafiqa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—3,3203.2K rec.—1Shafiqa17
AF Afghanistan#103934926 rec.——Shafiqa12
MY Malaysia—894722 rec.——Shafiqa24
PK Pakistan—63810 rec.—listedShafiqa17
US United States—234871 rec.1 in 1.4M234Shafiqa47
TR Türkiye—182182 rec.——Shafiqa5
NO Norway—1005 rec.—100Shafiqa2
GB United Kingdom—9884 rec.——Shafiqa16
AU Australia—9193 rec.——Shafiqa15
SE Sweden—78199 rec.1 in 131K78Shafiqa5
SY Syria—6468 rec.——Shafiqa5
NL Netherlands—4844 rec.——Shafiqa5

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi2K20%
  • English1.4K14%
  • Malay1.3K12%
  • Urdu1.2K11%
  • Pashto1K10%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi2,03320%
English1,44814%
Malay1,27312%
Urdu1,18011%
Pashto1,03710%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Shafiqa is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name31 records spelled Shafiqa2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Shafīqa

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Shafiqa 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.

  • In Arabic, compassionate, kind-hearted, affectionate, tender, warm-hearted; fem. of Shafiq

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim 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.

Over time●

0204060802005201020152020

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Shafiqa in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2005–2020
Yearrecords
200510
200613
200714
200815
200916
201018
201121
201223
201328
201432
201536
201643
201750
201855
201959
202064

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 16 years between 2005–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Evidence●

Attested in 15 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Shafiqa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020234#34,642
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—100#7,760
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—78#10,077
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202064—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201959—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201855—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201750—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201643—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201536—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—35#14,044
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201432—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#16,518

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 52 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Shafiqa?
We estimate roughly 342 people bear Shafiqa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Shafiqa have the most bearers?
Shafiqa is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled shafiqa.
How common is Shafiqa compared with other names?
In Afghanistan, Shafiqa is the 103rd most common given name of 22,039 given names recorded there.
Is Shafiqa a male or female name?
Shafiqa 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 Shafiqa mean?
Recorded meaning: compassionate, kind-hearted, affectionate, tender, warm-hearted; fem. of Shafiq
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shafiqa” — the 103rd most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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