Entry № 206 · Arabic origin

Afra Afra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AHF-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"White-soiled (Afra companion of Prophet)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "white-soiled (afra companion of prophet)".

Afra is from the Arabic ʿAfrāʾ.

White-soiled (Afra companion of Prophet) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

عفراء
Transliteration
ʿAfrāʾ
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑːf.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Afra stands.

Afra 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.

Afras before her.

Real people

In fiction
Afra bint ʿUbada / Battle of Badr
Afra bint ʿUbada early female companion of Prophet Muhammad + mother of Muʿawwidh + Battle of Badr 624 CE + Islamic Prophetic-companion heritage
Islamic tradition

Names connected to Afra.

The number behind Afra.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Afra reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.