Entry № 199 · Arabic origin

Afaf Afaf — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-FAHF /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Arabic

Meaning

"Chastity / purity"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "chastity / purity".

Afaf is from the Arabic ʿAfāf.

Chastity / purity — a Arabic name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

عفاف

Transliteration: ʿAfāf
Pronunciation: / əˈfɑːf /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Afaf stands.

Afaf does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Namesakes

Afafs before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Quranic modesty / An-Nur

Quran Surah 24 An-Nur The Light + commandments of modesty 24:30-31 + Hadith of Bukhari + pan-Islamic moral-ethical heritage

Quran

Names connected to Afaf.

Numerology

The number behind Afaf.

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Afaf reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.