Entry № 4442 · Arabic origin

Ifrah Ifrah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EEF-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Happiness (Somali-Arabic + Ifrah Ahmed anti-FGM activist)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Arabic)

A name that means "happiness (somali-arabic + ifrah ahmed anti-fgm activist)".

Ifrah is from the Somali / Arabic إِفْرَاح (Ifrāḥ — happiness, joy, celebration). Ifrah is one of the Somali feminine names — central to traditional Somali pastoral + Sunni Muslim heritage. Somali-Arabic feminine name reflecting Somali Muslim heritage.

Happiness (Somali-Arabic + Ifrah Ahmed anti-FGM activist) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

إِفْرَاح
Transliteration
Ifrāḥ
Pronunciation
/ ˈiːf.rɑː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ifrah stands.

Ifrah 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.

Ifrahs before her.

Real people
Ifrah Ahmed
Somali-Irish anti-FGM activist + Ifrah Foundation Ireland 2010 + A Girl from Mogadishu 2019.
born 1989
In fiction
Ifrah
Somali-Arabic happiness.

Names connected to Ifrah.

The number behind Ifrah.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ifrah reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.