Given name & surname
Kalifa
“a chaste and holy woman”
Kalifa is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “a chaste and holy woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “a chaste and holy woman.”
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1992. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kalifa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 86
- 5 boys · 81 girls
- Most popular year
- 1997
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 210 as a first name in 2020; 196 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kalifa’s family of names
Kalifa has a related form in Kaleafa. Kalifa has a related form in Kaleafah. Kalifa has a related form in Kaleapha.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Kalifahvariant
- Kaliffalikely variant
- Kaleaphavariant
- Kaleafahvariant
- Kaleafavariant
- Kaleephavariant
- Kalyphavariant
- Kaliphavariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Kalifa
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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