Shafai as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Shafai

What is the meaning of the name Shafai ?

The baby name Shafai is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced /ʃɑːˈfaɪ/ (shah-FY).

Shafai is Arabic in Origin.

Shafai is an Arabic-derived name used across Persian and Urdu-speaking communities. It most commonly traces to Arabic shifa (“healing, cure”), yielding the adjectival shifai, “healing” or “restorative”; as a personal name it carries wishes for well-being, recovery, and compassion. In some cases it reflects the nisba Shafi'i, “of al-Shafi'i,” denoting connection to the Shafi'i school of Sunni law; families attested with this spelling may therefore bear a sectarian or scholarly association rather than the “healing” sense.

Usage spans given name and surname, though it is especially familiar in South Asian and Iranian literary circles as a byname or pen-name, including poets styled Shifai. Spellings and related forms include Shifai, Shifa’i, Shafaei, Shafei, Shafayi, and Shafi'i. Pronounced sha-fa-ee or sha-fye, the name suits all genders in modern use, with Shifa (“healing”) and Shafi (from shafi, “intercessor”) as close cognates.

⚙ Shafai is a rare name. It doesn't appear in any of the major national birth registries we track; we found only 30 recorded uses across 13 countries. Expect very few children to share this name.