Entry № 7120 · Arabic origin

Nafissatou Nafissatou — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ nah-fee-SAH-too /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Precious (Nafissatou Thiam Belgian Olympic heptathlete)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Wolof)

A name that means "precious (nafissatou thiam belgian olympic heptathlete)".

Nafissatou is from the Wolof-Arabic Nafisatū — from the Arabic nafīsah (precious, valuable). Nafissatou is one of the Senegalese + Malian + Belgian-Senegalese feminine names. Belgian Sportswoman of the Year (multiple times).

Precious (Nafissatou Thiam Belgian Olympic heptathlete) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

Nafissatou
Transliteration
Nafissatou
Pronunciation
/ ˌnɑː.fiːˈsɑː.tuː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nafissatou stands.

Nafissatou 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.

Nafissatous before her.

Real people
Nafissatou Thiam
Belgian-Senegalese 3x Olympic gold heptathlete first in history.
born 1994
In fiction
Nafissatou
Wolof-Arabic precious.

Names connected to Nafissatou.

The number behind Nafissatou.

8

The Visionary

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