Nafisa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: refined, pure, precious, delicate, choice, exquisite
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 30 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Nafisa is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 740(inferred from the name graph)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 1.1K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nafisa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 213 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 744 (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uzbekistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Нафиса in UZ Uzbekistan, KG Kyrgyzstan, TJ Tajikistan.
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)refined, pure, precious, delicate, choice, exquisite
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nafisa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | 8 | Nafisa | 81 |
| BD Bangladesh | #516 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 2 | Nafisa | 66 |
| NG Nigeria | #843 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | listed | Nafisa | 50 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #222 | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 744 | listed | Нафиса | 25 |
| AF Afghanistan | #123 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Nafisa | 14 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #521 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | listed | Нафиса | 4 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #662 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Нафиса | 12 |
| US United States | — | 1,706 | 1 in 195K | 1.7K | Nafisa | 213 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; the african-names-handbook-1976 register; the uz-ismlarim register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Page provides top names for Bangladesh published by Students of the World.. 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)Nafisa is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, comforter
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
priceless, gem
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
Reliever
as a nameA Handbook of African Names
precious
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
In Arabic, precious, gem. A "great granddaughter of Ali."®8
as a nameA Dictionary of 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)- Sayyida Nafisab. 762SAMuslim scholar
- Nafisa al-Baydab. 1743EGEgyptian diplomat and philanthropist
- Nafisah Ahmad Zen Shahabb. 1946IDnot in their usual nameIndonesian businessperson
- Nafisa Alib. 1957INIndian actress and model
- Nafisa Shahb. 1968PKpolitician in Pakistan
- Nafisa Josephb. 1978INIndian model, television personality (1978–2004)
- Nafisa Abdullaevab. 1978UZUzbek lawyer
- Jiah Khanb. 1988USnot in their usual nameBritish−American Bollywood actress (1988–2013)
- Nafisa Muminovab. 1990UZUzbekistani chess player
- Nafisa Sheripboevab. 2001UZUzbekistani Paralympic judoka
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)52 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.7K | #8,493 |
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 509 | #3,920 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 14 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7 | #8,493 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2016 | 1 | — |
| NG Nigeria | A Handbook of African Names (Asante, 1976) | — | — | — |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ismlarim.uz — Uzbek given names | — | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | naija-faker — Nigerian Given Names by Ethnicity (Hausa/Igbo/Yoruba) | — | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | Nigerian names by ethnicity (naijafaker, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- 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 Nafisa mean, and where does it come from?
- refined, pure, precious, delicate, choice, exquisite Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- What are other forms of the name Nafisa?
- In the etymology graph, Nefiset is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Nafisa a male or female name?
- Nafisa is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), India (India Names Dataset) and Norway (SSB).
- In which country does Nafisa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 183 thousand people named Nafisa in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nafisa.
- How common is the name Nafisa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,706 people named Nafisa in 2020, about 1 in 195 thousand residents.
- How common is Nafisa compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Nafisa is the 123rd most common given name of 21,469 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/nafisaThe 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, “Nafisa” — the 123rd most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.