Afrah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: pl. of Farah ¢ 53, joy, happiness
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/æfɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Afrah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Saudi Arabia than in any other country. In Oman it is the 77th most common given name.
- KWKuwait≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 7.1K
- USUnited States1 in 399K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Saudi Arabia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Oman, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
pl. of Farah ¢ 53, joy, happiness
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Afrah counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA Saudi Arabia | #906 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Afrah | 71 |
| YE Yemen | #617 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Afrah | 24 |
| OM Oman | #77 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Afrah | 27 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 132K | listed | Afrah | 16 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 229K | — | Afrah | 49 |
| KW Kuwait | #401 | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Afrah | 48 |
| US United States | — | 834 | 1 in 399K | 805 | Afrah | 118 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Afrah | 51 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Afrah is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, plural of Farah: joy, happiness
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, happier, happiest
as a nameAfrican 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jonis Josefb. 1992NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian comedian
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 805 | #14,196 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 29 | #14,196 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 7 | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Afrah mean, and where does it come from?
- pl. of Farah ¢ 53, joy, happiness Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Afrah?
- A machine transcription gives /æfɹə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Afrah a male or female name?
- Afrah 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.
- In which country does Afrah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Afrah in Saudi Arabia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled afrah.
- How common is the name Afrah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 834 people named Afrah in 2020, about 1 in 399 thousand residents.
- How common is Afrah compared with other names?
- In Saudi Arabia, Afrah is the 906th most common given name of 64,319 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/afrahThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Afrah” — the 906th most common given name in Saudi Arabia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.