Entry № 3967 · Arabic origin

Hafsa Hafsa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HAF-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Young lioness, gatherer"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Arabic)

A name that means "young lioness, gatherer".

Hafsa (حفصة) comes from the Arabic root meaning "young lioness" or, by some accounts, "gatherer." Hafsa bint Umar was a wife of the Prophet Muhammad and is credited with preserving one of the earliest written copies of the Quran.

Hafsa is widely used across the Muslim world.

Young lioness. The wife who preserved the Quran.

The name in its native script.

حفصة
Transliteration
Ḥafṣah
Pronunciation
/ ˈhæf.sə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hafsa stands.

Hafsa 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.

Hafsas before her.

Real people
Hafsa bint Umar
Wife of Prophet Muhammad, preserver of Quran manuscript.
c. 605 – 665 CE
In fiction
Hafsa
Common in Arabic fiction.

Names connected to Hafsa.

The number behind Hafsa.

8

The Visionary

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