Vafa
The name carries the sense of loyalty and faithfulness. Fewer than 30 people in Poland use it, almost all of them women, and no girl has been given it in recent years.
Vafa Pronunciation
What Vafa means
Where Vafa comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vafa reaches Polish name lists from Persian. There the word vafā means loyalty and faithfulness. A promise kept is described as ba vafā, done in good faith. The same root runs through Arabic, in wafā', the keeping of a pledge, so the name sits inside a wider family of words about staying true.
In Poland the name stays rare. On a school register it would sit among names like Zuzia and Maja, short and unfamiliar next to them. At the urząd it needs no Polish ending to be written down.
Vafa has no diminutive here, no variant, no crossing to a boys' form. That one word does the work. Loyalty was not attached to the name later. It is the meaning the name began with, and still holds: faithfulness.
How many people are named Vafa
1 in 901753 women in Poland is named Vafa. 27 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8186 among female names.