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Safi

#9,546 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Pure

Safi has been given to 296 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #9,546 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 14 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 65% boys, 35% girls all-time.

Babies named Safi, 2025

1 in 414,000

Safi over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Safi over time

In 2025, Safi went to 69% girls and 31% boys.

20002025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Safi: meaning, origin, and history

Pure

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Safi means

Safi means “pure”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 191 boys were recorded with the name Safi between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2020; its best national rank was #6,225 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,225 in 2020 to #9,546 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,670 in 2015 to #9,546 in 2025.

In the United States, 105 girls were recorded with the name Safi between 2012 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2025; its best national rank was #6,506 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,134 in 2020 to #6,506 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,797 in 2015 to #6,506 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 Safi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,546
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Safi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Safi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Safis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Safi was born before 2013 — so the typical Safi is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
191
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Choose a decade

2000s — 35.1% of all recorded uses (67).

Is Safi 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
−1,886
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,321
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,124
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.60×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.1%
Peak was 2020 (14)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,225
2020

Spellings of Safi

Safi is not the most common spelling — Sam is, with 29.7% against Safi's 0.04%.

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 Safi is used

Across 1910–2025, Safi was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 917,217 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

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

Safi around the world

Where Safi 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
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    1961–2024
    #6,777
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2013–2014
    #2,374
    in 2014

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Safi by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,546
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,321
Best rank ever
#6,225
2020
Peak year
2020
14 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
191
Count in 2025
8

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,506
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,628
Best rank ever
#6,506
2025
Peak year
2025
18 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
105
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Safi

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

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Sibling names for Safi

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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