Entry № 7109 · Arabic origin

Nadifa Nadifa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ nah-DEE-fah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Pure (Somali + Nadifa Mohamed Costa Book Awards novelist)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Somali)

A name that means "pure (somali + nadifa mohamed costa book awards novelist)".

Nadifa is from the Somali Nadifa — pure, clean (from Arabic naẓīfa — pure, immaculate). Nadifa is one of the Somali feminine names — central to traditional Somali pastoral + Sunni Muslim heritage.

Pure (Somali + Nadifa Mohamed Costa Book Awards novelist) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

Nadifa
Transliteration
Nadifa
Pronunciation
/ nəˈdiː.fə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nadifa stands.

Nadifa 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.

Nadifas before her.

Real people
Nadifa Mohamed
Somali-British novelist + The Fortune Men 2021 Booker Prize shortlisted + Costa Awards 2021.
born 1981
In fiction
Nadifa
Somali pure.

Names connected to Nadifa.

The number behind Nadifa.

8

The Visionary

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