Entry № 6436 · Russian origin

Marfa Marfa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Russian
Meaning
"A lady, a mistress"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "a lady, a mistress".

Marfa is a name of Russian origin, meaning a lady, a mistress.

A lady, a mistress — a Russian name.

The name in its native script.

Marfa
Transliteration
Marfa
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Marfa stands.

Marfa 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.

Marfas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Marfa.

The number behind Marfa.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Marfa reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.