Arefa
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Arefa is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 75K(measured from records)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 23K
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 120K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Arefa counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Arefa | 6 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Arefa | 17 |
| US United States | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | listed | Arefa | 20 |
| SY Syria | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 449K | — | Arefa | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Arefa | 9 |
| SE Sweden | 24 | 1 in 425K | 24 | Arefa | 4 |
| GY Guyana | 10 | 1 in 75K | 10 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Arefa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, "the eagle."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 24 | #21,774 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 13 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 10 | #584 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Arefa a male or female name?
- Arefa is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: India (India Names Dataset).
- In which country does Arefa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Arefa in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arefa.
- How common is the name Arefa?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 24 people named Arefa, about 1 in 425 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Arefa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arefaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Arefa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.