Nafisa

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Nafisa: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Nafisa: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #655 in 2000, and it stood at #1,491 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#655highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Girls

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#783
1997	#770
1998	#869
1999	#703
2000	#655
2001	#685
2002	#722
2003	#933
2004	#821
2005	#745
2006	#816
2007	#836
2008	#957
2009	#1022
2010	#1040
2011	#1168
2012	#1253
2013	#1220
2014	#1628
2015	#1549
2016	#1571
2017	#1995
2018	#2674
2019	#1940
2020	#2449
2021	#1866
2022	#1621
2023	#1705
2024	#1491

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

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What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #783 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #655 among girls in England and Wales, in 2000 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1491 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Nafisa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Nafisa in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	117	4 of 10	29
2000sbusiest	348	10 of 10	35
2010s	209	10 of 10	21
2020s	81	5 of 10	16

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 35 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Nafisa appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #655 in England and Wales in 2000.

Nafisa's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1491	21	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1705	17	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1621	18	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1866	15	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2449	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1940	14	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2674	9	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1995	14	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1571	20	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1549	20	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1628	18	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1220	28	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1253	26	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1168	28	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1040	32	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1022	31	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#957	33	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#836	38	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#816	37	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#745	39	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#821	33	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#933	26	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#722	36	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#685	37	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#655	38	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#703	33	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#869	25	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#770	30	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#783	29	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #655, first reached in 2000.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 39 births, registered in England and Wales in 2005.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#1,491position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
39births registered in its largest year, 200525 to 49 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Naevia · #2058, 11y
Nafeesa · #635, 28y
Nafisah · #1095, 27y
Naftali · #2254, 18y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Azhar · #655, 28y
Nyle · #654, 29y
Shyam · #654, 27y
Tyler-Jay · #654, 24y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aminat · #655, 18y
Anuoluwapo · #655, 26y
Areeba · #655, 29y
Azhar · #655, 28y

Nafisa was ranked #655 in England and Wales · Girls in 2000. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Nafisa and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Nafisa without appearing here.

Nafisa moved ahead of

Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2449 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1866 and #5581.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2674 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1940 and #5591.
Sinead Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1705 and #1705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1491 and #3695.
Siobhán Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1995 and #1817 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2674 and #4684.

Moved ahead of Nafisa

Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1995 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2674 and #1436.
Eabha Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1940 and #2458 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2449 and #1313.
Ezra Compare
In 2016 they stood at #1571 and #1689 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #1995 and #1411.
Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2449 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1866 and #1286.

Moved the opposite way to Nafisa

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nafisa went from #783 to #1491 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nafisa went from #783 to #1491 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nafisa went from #783 to #1491 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nafisa went from #783 to #1491 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Nafisa

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nafisa went from #783 to #1491 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nafisa went from #783 to #1491 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nafisa went from #783 to #1491 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nafisa went from #783 to #1491 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #655 in England and Wales in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Nafisa

Nafisa at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Nafisa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Nafisa appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Nafisa at a glance

Nafisa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Nafisa

Nafisa and the names beside it

Nafisa moved ahead of

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