Forename Afiya

Around the world, Afiya (Afiya , Афия ) is a common predominantly girly, but very infrequently male first name. The given name Afiya is characteristic of Antigua and Barbuda, where it is quite a common feminine name, Maldives, and Trinidad and Tobago, where it is quite a rare feminine name. In absolute terms, the name is most common in Southern Asia, particularly India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Much less frequently, Afiya is the last name as well as the forename.

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Translations, transliterations and names similar to the name Afiya

name Афія, name Áfíýà, name Афийа, name Afiya, name Афия, name Аьфия

VARIANT	COUNTRY
Afiya	Nigeria, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Bangladesh
Афия	Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan

First names said to be same

Áfíýà, Афийа, Афія, and Аьфия

Notable namesakes

	afiya sajwani researcher
	afiya zia Pakistani writer, feminist and gender and women's studies researcher
	afiya m mbilishaka researcher
	afiya shehrbano zia Pakistani feminist researcher, writer and activist

Characteristic surnames

Ali, Sayyed, Shaikh, Ansari, Khanam, Khatun, Parvin, Pathan, Rahman, Laskar, Mondal, Thomas, Sultana, Khatoon, Paravin, Parveen, Roberts, Edwards, Hussain, Qureshi, Mohammed, Fatima, Mandal, Islam, Jones, Sekh, Syed, Banu, Bano, Bibi, Khan, King, John, Naaz, Webb, Momin, Shaik, Smith, Anjum, Ahmad, Ahmed, Begam, Begum, Begom, Brown, Patel, Siddiqui, and Williams