Across the world, Nafissa (Nafissa 
, نفيسة 
) is a common female forename. The first name Nafissa is characteristic of Cameroon, where it is quite a common predominantly female, but very infrequently masculine name, Sudan, where it is quite a rare girly name, and Algeria. Very seldom, Nafissa is the last name as well as the forename.
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| Nafissa | Morocco, Niger, Senegal, Cameroon, Algeria |
| نفيسة | Egypt, Sudan, Iraq, Algeria, Saudi Arabia |
| nafissa sid cara French politician, FR (b. 1910) |
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| nafissa hamoud Algerian politician, DZ (b. 1924) |
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| nafissa sadi-ahmed researcher |
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| nafissa thompson-spires American writer |
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| nafissa ismail Neuroimmunologist Neuroendocrinologist |
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| nafissa osman researcher |
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| nafissa nadia ibrahim researcher (ORCID 0000-0002-5735-8164) |
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| nafissa yaouba BE |
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| nafissa souleymane Nigerien sprinter, NE (b. 1992) |
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