Saafir
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Saafir has been given to 150 babies in the U.S. since 1999. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2016, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Saafir, 2024
1 in 478,000
Saafir over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Saafir?
Saafir had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 478,000
- 7 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 246,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 331,009 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Saafir sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saafir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Saafirs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Saafir was born before 2014 — so the typical Saafir is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 56.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 150
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 56.7% of all recorded uses (85).
Is Saafir rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2016 (13)
- Years since peak
- 9
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.7% average annual change
Spellings of Saafir
Saafir is not the most common spelling — Samir is, with 58.6% against Saafir's 0.79%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Saafir is used
Across 1910–2025, Saafir was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 398,790 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Pennsylvania1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Saafir has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Saafir around the world
Where Saafir ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2021–2021#3,990in 2021
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Saafir by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Saafir
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Saafir
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.