Given name & surname
Zarifa
“one who is successful; moves with grace”
Zarifa is used as a given name and a surname. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is successful; moves with grace.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “one who is successful; moves with grace.”
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 1974. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Zarifa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 34
- 0 boys · 34 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #17,242 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 17,242 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 8 in 1979. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 317 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Zarifa’s family of names
Zarifa has a related form in Zareafa. Zarifa has a related form in Zareafah. Zarifa has a related form in Zareefa.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Zarifa
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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