Kifah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: struggle; fight
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kifɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kifah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 77K
- DKDenmark1 in 245K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- 1 in 77K (inferred from the name graph)
218 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
struggle; fight
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kifah 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.
218 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 164 | #36,405 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 133 | #7,022 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 57 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 55 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 55 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 54 | #36,405 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 54 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 53 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 47 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 47 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 43 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 39 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kifah mean, and where does it come from?
- struggle; fight Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Kifah?
- A machine transcription gives /kifɑ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Kifah a male or female name?
- Kifah is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Kifah have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 218 people named Kifah, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kifah.
- Where is Kifah most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kifah is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 77 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kifah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 218 people named Kifah in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kifahThe 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, “Kifah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.