Entry № 11432 · Arabic origin

Wafaa Wafaa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ wah-FAH /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Loyalty (Wafaa El Saddik Egyptian Museum director)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "loyalty (wafaa el saddik egyptian museum director)".

Wafaa is from the Arabic Wafā' (وفاء — loyalty, faithfulness, fidelity). Wafaa is one of the Arabic feminine names.

Loyalty / fidelity (Arabic).

The name in its native script.

وفاء
Transliteration
Wafā'
Pronunciation
/ wəˈfɑː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Wafaa stands.

Wafaa 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.

Wafaas before her.

Real people
Wafaa El Saddik
First woman Director of Egyptian Museum Cairo 2004-10.
born 1950
In fiction
Wafaa
Arabic loyalty.

Names connected to Wafaa.

The number behind Wafaa.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Wafaa reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.