Shafiqa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shafiqa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country, where it is the 98th most common given name. Recorded meaning: compassionate, kind-hearted, affectionate, tender, warm-hearted; fem. of Shafiq.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 2.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 69K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 78K
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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
compassionate, kind-hearted, affectionate, tender, warm-hearted; fem. of Shafiq
Sources 2
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Nordic Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shafiqa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #98 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Shafiqa | 14 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Shafiqa | 23 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 527K | listed | Shafiqa | 19 |
| US United States | — | 235 | 1 in 1.4M | 234 | Shafiqa | 54 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 584K | listed | Shafiqa | 8 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Shafiqa | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | 78 | 1 in 131K | 78 | Shafiqa | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 318K | — | Shafiqa | 4 |
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). 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)
Shafiqa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, compassionate, kind-hearted, affectionate, tender, warm-hearted; fem. of Shafiq
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #83,143 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Shafiqa mean, and where does it come from?
- compassionate, kind-hearted, affectionate, tender, warm-hearted; fem. of Shafiq Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names and Nordic Names.
- Is Shafiqa a male or female name?
- Shafiqa 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 Shafiqa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Shafiqa in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shafiqa.
- How common is the name Shafiqa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 235 people named Shafiqa in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Shafiqa compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Shafiqa is the 98th most common given name of 21,469 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shafiqaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Shafiqa” — the 98th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.