Happy birthday for female friends.

50+ Heartfelt Birthday Wishes Our Female Friends Would Love to Hear

Finding the right words to express your affection on your friend’s special day can sometimes be a challenge. But worry no more, because we have compiled a list of heartfelt and thoughtful birthday wishes for a female friend that can make her day even more memorable. Our collection includes a range of messages that cater to all kinds of friendships and personalities. Whether she is your best friend, childhood pal, or someone you’ve grown close to recently, these birthday wishes for a female friend are sure to touch her heart and bring a smile to her face.

In this post, we are sharing more than 50 unique and thoughtful birthday wishes, because each friendship is different and deserves a special acknowledgment. From sweet sentiments to funny quips, these birthday wishes are perfect for letting your friend know just how much she means to you. Your best friend girl will appreciate the time you took to find a message that perfectly fits your bond. Let’s delve into these wonderful expressions of love and friendship to find the perfect words for your friend’s special day.

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Why Send Different Birthday Wishes to your Female Friends in the first place?

When we send birthday wishes to someone, we often tailor our message based on several factors, such as the person’s personality, our relationship with them, their interests, and indeed, their gender. This isn’t unique to female friends; we do the same for male friends and people of any gender.

The gender of a person might influence the type of birthday message you send for a few reasons:

1. Cultural Expectations and Social Norms: In many cultures, different qualities and interests are associated with different genders due to social and cultural norms. As a result, a birthday wish might reference these traditionally gender-associated qualities or interests.

2. Personal Connection: You might know your friend’s preferences well, and these preferences could be influenced by their gender. For example, if your female friend loves flowers, your birthday wish might include a reference to beautiful blooms.

3. Language and Expression: Sometimes, language used can be slightly different based on the gender. This could be more tender, gentle or traditionally “feminine” language for women, and more bold, strong or traditionally “masculine” language for men.

Let's Celebrate - Birthday card

It’s Not Cultural, It’s Personal

It’s important to note, however, that these are generalizations and may not hold true for every individual. Everyone is unique, and their preferences, interests, and personalities are shaped by many more factors than just their gender.

It’s best to base your birthday wishes on what you know about the person as an individual, regardless of their gender. What do they enjoy? What are their hopes and dreams? What’s the nature of your relationship with them? Answering these questions can help you create a personalized and meaningful birthday message.

Always keep in mind that each person is unique, and a message that reflects their individuality is often the most appreciated. So, while gender can influence the way we express our wishes, it doesn’t define the substance of our message.

Birthday image for cool female friend.
Happy birthday, girlfriend.
Birthday message for female friend.
Happy birthday, my lovely friend.

Short Happy Birthday Wishes for a Female Friend

When it’s her special day, here are some short and sweet birthday wishes for your female friend:

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Happy Birthday! Wishing you a day filled with happiness and a year filled with joy.

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Cheers to another year of fabulous you. Happy Birthday!

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To the sweetest friend, have a sugar-coated, joyful birthday!

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Happy Birthday! Here’s to another year of laughter, joy, and friendship.

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May your day be as beautiful as you. Happy Birthday, dear friend!

Happy birthday image for friend who loves cats.
Happy Birthday to you!

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Wishing you a birthday filled with sweet moments and wonderful memories.

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Keep shining, beautiful one. The world needs your light. Happy Birthday!

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Blessed to have you in my life. Happy Birthday, my dear friend!

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Wishing you a day as lovely as you are. Happy Birthday!

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Sending you smiles for every moment of your special day. Happy Birthday!

These are brief, but still convey your best wishes and appreciation for your friend on her birthday. Remember, the best birthday wishes are the ones that come from the heart.

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Have a fabulous birthday celebration

Cute and Funny Birthday Wishes For a Female Best Friend

Happy Birthday! Just remember, you don’t stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop laughing. So, keep laughing, and age will be just a number (a significantly large number, but let’s ignore that).

On your special day, may your cake be sweet, your presents expensive and your day without a single chore! Because that’s the only way you’d agree to have a birthday every year, isn’t it?

Happy Birthday! Remember, age gets better with wine. Or was it the other way around? Anyway, let’s pour a glass and figure it out!

Happy Birthday! You know you’re getting older when the candles cost more than the cake. So next year, let’s celebrate with a single candle and save the rest for our shopping spree!

Happy Birthday to you, Bestie - Cute Birthday Card

Congrats, bestie! You’re officially old enough to need TWO packs of candles for your cake. Have the happiest of birthdays and remember: more candles mean a bigger wish!

Someone quick – fetch the fatted calf so that we may slay it. ‘Tis the happiest birthday ever of my best girl friend in the world! #notvegan

I just wanted to take the occasion of your birthday to let you know that I love you – 100 percent platonically, of course!

You are like a lioness upon the earth, and this joyous day, I want you to rejoice in that you have at least one true, eternal friend in me!

On your big day, we pay tribute to the sexy, powerful, intelligent, sophisticated woman which is you. Happy birthday, dear, and I hope we are all blessed with many more years of your amazing womanhood!

I feel like taking a big bite out of you just like this cake! May your birthday bring you blessings of love, peace, prosperity and true happiness. #birthdaycannibal

Let me forewarn you that this birthday is going to be one of your best ever, so I hope that you are emotionally prepared!

Birthday message for female friend.
Wishing a super duper happy birthday to my bestie!
Birthday message for female friend.
Happy Birthday. I am so lucky to be your friend.

Heart Touching Birthday Wishes for Best Friend Girl

I wish your mother was around so I could kiss her for having such a beautiful daughter! I wish your father was around so I could shake his hand for having such a beautiful child. Happy birthday.

I celebrate the day you were born because I am thankful to have a female friend like you. Have a wonderful day, dear.

Our relationship is about merrymaking, not lovemaking, and today we are going to celebrate your birthday hard like true homeys!

If I were born a female, I would hope to be one as lovely as you. Thank you for being a true friend and making it to another birthday for us to commemorate and enjoy together!

Today is a day for singing and rejoicing because my dear best friend has lived to see another birthday!

I admire your courage, your resilience – but most of all your beautiful heart! Keep on keeping on for all of us, dear!

I am juiced up because today is my homey’s birthday, and we are going to share lots of laughs and food in honor of her!

Thank you God for giving me a female friend that I can trust and rely on, and today I am going to show just how much I appreciate having her in my life!

I may not be able to bling you out the way I want to on your birthday, but that doesn’t mean I don’t love you. Your friendship is more valuable than a billion dollars to me, darling!

Today, I salute you for being such a lovely human being and a fabulous friend. We need more women in the world like you!

On this special day, we recognize God for creating you, your parents for conjuring up the perfect mixture to produce a phenomenal woman, and yourself just for being you. Have the most loveliest of lovely days.

The brightness of your essence lights up my life, just as these candles playfully illuminate your birthday cake.

Having a friend like you is such a dear privilege, and I wanted to use today to express that sentiment to the world!

Today is your day, sweetness, and it is my mission to make sure you enjoy it as thoroughly as possible!

Wishing you lots of happiness, my dear friend - Birthday card

If you don’t smile today, then neither will I. Happy birthday, sweetness!

I love you so much, and this is a day that I don’t have to be afraid of your boyfriend to say it!

If you keep getting more beautiful with age like you’re doing right now, then you’re probably going to have a 20 year old boyfriend when you’re 80! May your birthday celebration be as beautiful as you.

Today, I want you to just relax, reflect on your life and appreciate it. After all, it is your birthday!

If I can’t force you to smile today, then I may as well have stayed in bed. I love you, dear, and thank God for bringing you to a new age in life!

Life has nurtured you to grow into a beautiful woman, and today we acknowledge the loving care it has shown you as well as express our desire that it stays with you forevermore.

Because you are my best friend who means everything to me in this world, I consider your birthday a more important event than my own! Have a glorious day.

Today, we are going to lively up ourselves because it is your birthday!

Birthday wish for female friend.
Happy Birthday to my beloved friend!

I never knew a person can be both soft and strong until I met you. I hope you have a wonderful birthday, dear.

My life is enriched by having a special friend like you, and I hope on this milestone birthday of yours, I will be able to properly show you how much you mean to me.

You have graced my life with an irreplaceable womanly presence. May you have a wonderful birthday where everyone shows you the love that you deserve!

You are like a beautiful flower that is still blooming. May you be blessed with many more years of life to live out your full potential!

I hope that this beautiful birthday of yours I am able to infuse you with the same level of exceedingly great joy and appreciation you have brought into my life.

Dear, hoping you have a future fertile with love, success and happiness, and at any juncture where you may stumble, know that I am there for you.

You have made it through another challenging year of your life more beautiful, more confident and more successful. That is the reason why today I feel so privileged to celebrate your birthday!

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Happy Birthday to the best girl friend in the world!

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1. “Happy Birthday, Amiga! Wishing you a day as warm and bright as your smile. ¡Feliz cumpleaños a ti!”

2. “Feliz cumpleaños, Amiga! Today is all about you, so let’s make it as amazing as you are. ¡Que tengas un día maravilloso!”

3. “Happy Birthday, Amiga! Here’s to another year of laughing until it hurts, dealing with stupid people, and keeping each other sane. ¡Feliz cumpleaños y un brindis por más años de amistad!”

4. “¡Feliz cumpleaños, Amiga! To the amazing person who has seen me at my best and my worst, yet loves me anyway. May your day be as fabulous as you are!”

5. “Happy Birthday, Amiga! Age is just a number, and you prove it in every possible way. ¡Que tengas un día lleno de alegría!”

Mensaje de Feliz Cumpleaños para una amiga guapa.
¡Feliz cumpleaños, guapa!

6. “Feliz cumpleaños, Amiga! Here’s to a whole year ahead, full of adventures, blue skies, dreams come true, and a lot of happiness!”

7. “Happy Birthday, Amiga! Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated. ¡Hoy es tu día para brillar!”

8. “¡Feliz cumpleaños, Amiga! Remember, it’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey. Enjoy every moment of your journey.”

9. “Happy Birthday, Amiga! Another year older means another year wiser, and hotter. Gracias, global warming. ¡Feliz cumpleaños!”

10. “¡Feliz cumpleaños, Amiga! Wishing you a day full of love, laughter, and a lot of cake. Don’t worry about the future, the best is yet to come!”

Deseo de Feliz Cumpleaños para una amiga sobre una imagen de pastel de cumpleaños.
Feliz Cumpleaños, cariño.

Birthday Wishes from a Woman to a Woman Colleague

Never in my entire working life have I had a colleague who is as dedicated to their job as you are. You inspire me so much. Happy birthday.

Happy birthday, my dearest friend. Having a lovely friend and colleague like you at work makes the workplace a living paradise. May your birthday celebration be nothing short of fantastic!

Today is your special day, and I can’t wait to party with you tonight. I hope this special day brings into your life immense happiness, joy and prosperity. Happy birthday.

You deserve nothing but true happiness all your life because you are such a great friend and colleague. Happy birthday, my dear, and may the good Lord bless you abundantly.

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Happy Birthday to you.

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Long birthday wishes for Female Friends

Thank you for living to see another birthday. The world is a much-more beautiful place when you are around. I hope you have a wonderful day, full of all of the cheerfulness that a woman as lovely as yourself deserves.

I want you to know this day is just as special to you as it is to me. Why? Because on this day, so many precious years ago, one of the loveliest human beings in history entered into the world, an angel in the form of the adorable person which is you.

If there is anybody on this earth who is a real-life Wonder Woman, it is you. And alas, I am but fit to be your faithful sidekick. And like any good lackey, I don’t need to be reminded of the really important times of the year, such as today. In other words, happy birthday!

I thank goodness that a day has been set aside specifically for me to show how much I care, where you won’t misinterpret my motives and understand that my gestures are purely in love and appreciation of a majestic friend. And as such, I have made it my goal to make sure you have a royal occasion, fitting to commemorate the birthday of a queen.

This year, you provide the sexiness and charm, and let me supply and champagne and dinner bill. I’ve been waiting so long for this day, knowing that I won’t be denied the opportunity to take you out and paint the town red with my special birthday girl!

This is a golden opportunity for me to let you know how much I care. This is the most-important day of the year to me. I love you so much, and I also love the day you were born. May the angels themselves extend to you their greetings during this lovely occasion.

You have the spirit of an old lady but the appearance of a damsel. So I don’t know if today you are getting older or younger. But I do know your reaching this milestone is a great cause for celebration. So on that note, let me be the first to wish you a very happy birthday girl.

Virtue is an attribute that follows you wherever you go. Making your acquaintance is one of the greatest fortunes I have had the benefit of receiving. Please let me use this special time to extend my prayer that you live a long, happy, prosperous life.

Siblinghood is not defined by parentage as much as it is sharing a single soul with one of your peers. So on this day, my most sincere wishes for a monumental birthday celebration are not being extended to a mere fried – but indeed my soul sister. May the smile that has come to symbolize all of the pleasant things in life continue to brighten our days for decades to come.

Happy Birthday Wishes for a Female Friend.
Happy Birthday.

May your day be filled with that cute little giggle which annoys me so much yet I can’t live without it. Thank you for being the kind of friend who isn’t afraid to let us laugh, even when we don’t want to. Your companionship is one of the few pleasures I have in this world. May every new age you experience bring with it new opportunities and new, exciting chapters in your life’s journey.

If I were a rich man, I would kill two cows, three goats and hire 12 bakers to celebrate your birthday. But since I’m not, please accept this humble cake, cheeseburger and chips. I love and admire you in ways that I can’t express in words. May God’s favour, love, mercy and protection always be upon you.

The years have been kind to you, my sweet friend, and as your bestie, I know the true secret. The beauty that lies inside, which makes up 99% of your heart, can’t help but to manifest itself outwardly also. And I look forward to many more years of being awestricken by your exemplary living.

My life was blessed with everything it needed on the day I befriended you. And that’s strange considering you are just a friend. Our companionship has shown me that true love is not based on exchanging bodily fluids. Rather it is about exchanging sincere wishes of health, long life and prosperity, which I impart on you today.

I hope that 50 years from now you will look back on this day as one of the best in your life. And I hope that between now and then you will be blessed with many children, lots of money and whatever else your heart desires. May you have a happy birthday, coming from your best friend in the world!

You have left permanent footprints in the sands of my life. And as the hourglass winds down, you defy convention to grow increasingly gorgeous. May the essence of the birthday candles we light in honor of your existence continue to burn aflame so that our children and children’s children can also relish in your beauty.

Behind your lovely exterior, I know how bad you truly are. You’re bad enough to put Michael Jackson to shame. But you’re not bad meaning bad but bad meaning good. And before I get any more confusing, may I wrap this up by exclaiming I love you and wish you a splendid birthday!

I’m a better friend than you. Want me to prove it? This year I have bought you a birthday gift of the magnitude that you won’t dare try to compete with. But I’m not looking for anything expensive in return. All I want is for you to continue being my friend and the beautiful person that you are!

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Elias Malassidis

Elias's tendency to storytelling could have been a hereditary thing, but his love for everything urban, for all things modern, and for the answer to the question 'why' all led him to his personal quest for self-fulfillment.

He has been a leading member of the team behind Birthday Wishes Expert, and has served as the chief editor on the website.

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