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Safa

#1,007 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Safaa

Safa has been given to 2,945 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #1,007 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 249 recorded.

Babies named Safa, 2025

1 in 13,300

Safa over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Safa: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Safaa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Safa means

Safa is a form of Safaa.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Safa → Safaa. The family’s meaning is “pure”, recorded in the naming reference for Safaa.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Safaa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,939 girls were recorded with the name Safa between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 249 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,007 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,726 in 2020 to #1,007 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,949 in 2015 to #1,007 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Safa between 2023 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2023; its best national rank was #11,982 in 2023.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Safa?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 13,300
249 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,450
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,007
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,230 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Safa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5004%

Put another way: gather 9,230 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Safa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Safas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Safa was born before 2016 — so the typical Safa is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,939
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.2% of all recorded uses (1,006).

Is Safa 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
+132
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+719
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+942
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.39×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (249)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,007
2025

Spellings of Safa

Safa is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 29.6% against Safa's 0.08%.

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 Safa is used

Across 2016–2025, Safa was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 1,053 girls, against 1 in 8,260 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in 100,000).

195 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 1,053
  2. 2Virginia1 in 3,846
  3. 3New York1 in 4,545
  4. 4Illinois1 in 5,556
  5. 5Michigan1 in 7,143
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 7,692
  7. 7Ohio1 in 7,692
  8. 8Maryland1 in 10,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Safa around the world

Where Safa 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #111
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2001–2025
    #272
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2003–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • France
    1979–2025
    #313
    in 2025
  • Norway
    2023–2025
    #391
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #348
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1982–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Safa

People whose public names include Safa, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Safa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,007
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 719
Best rank ever
#1,007
2025
Peak year
2025
249 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,939
Count in 2025
249

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,982
2023
Peak year
2023
6 that year
First recorded
2023
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Safa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

SafiaSafiyaSafaaWafaSafiSafinaSafiyahSafariSaffronSafiraYafaSafiyyahSafiyyaSafahSafireSafiatouRafaSafreenSaffiyaSaffiyahSaffaSaffireSafiyeSafana

Names with a curve like Safa

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Safa, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Safa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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