Given name & surname
Wafi
“one who is trustworthy”
Wafi is used as a given name and a surname. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is trustworthy.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “one who is trustworthy.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2008. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Wafi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 40
- 40 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 7 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 6 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2018.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Wafi’s family of names
Wafi has a related form in Wafee. Wafi has a related form in Wafey. Wafi has a related form in Wafie.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Wafi
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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