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Safaa

#5,205 in 2025Girls' name

Pure

Safaa has been given to 515 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #5,205 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Safaa, 2025

1 in 133,000

Safaa over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Safaa: meaning, origin, and history

Pure

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Safaa means

Safaa means “pure”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 515 girls were recorded with the name Safaa between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 34 in 2016; its best national rank was #4,335 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,043 in 2020 to #5,205 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,099 in 2015 to #5,205 in 2025.

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 Safaa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 133,000
25 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 64,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,205
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
91,917 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Safaa 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Safaa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Safaas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Safaa was born before 2015 — so the typical Safaa is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
515
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.6% of all recorded uses (245).

Is Safaa 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
+1,993
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+838
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−106
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.93×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
73.5%
Peak was 2016 (34)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,335
2016

Spellings of Safaa

Safaa is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 57.4% against Safaa's 0.03%.

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 Safaa is used

Across 1910–2025, Safaa was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 872,237 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —
  4. 4Virginia1 in —

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. Safaa has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Safaa around the world

Where Safaa 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
    #596
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2022–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    1980–2025
    #596
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,968
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #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 Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Safaa by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,205
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 838
Best rank ever
#4,335
2016
Peak year
2016
34 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
515
Count in 2025
25

Names similar to Safaa

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

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Sibling names for Safaa

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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