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Safia

#2,403 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Safiyya

Safia has been given to 1,616 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #2,403 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 75 recorded.

Babies named Safia, 2025

1 in 44,200

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Safia: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Safiyya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Safia means

Safia is a alternate transcription of Safiyya.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Safiyya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,616 girls were recorded with the name Safia between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 75 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,403 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,387 in 2020 to #2,403 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,884 in 2015 to #2,403 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 Safia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 44,200
75 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 21,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,403
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
30,640 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Safia 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 30,640 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Safia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Safias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Safia was born before 2011 — so the typical Safia is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,616
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.1% of all recorded uses (551).

Is Safia 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
+672
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+984
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+481
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.23×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (75)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,403
2025

Spellings of Safia

Safia is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 26.4% against Safia'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 Safia is used

Across 2016–2025, Safia was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 29,059 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 9,091
  2. 2Ohio1 in 16,667
  3. 3Illinois1 in 20,000
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 25,000
  5. 5California1 in 33,333
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  7. 7Virginia1 in 33,333
  8. 8Florida1 in 100,000

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.

Safia around the world

Where Safia 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
    #922
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2006–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2002–2021
    #883
    in 2021
  • France
    1949–2025
    #385
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #491
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,399
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1999–2013
    #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.

Safia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,403
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 984
Best rank ever
#2,403
2025
Peak year
2025
75 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,616
Count in 2025
75

Names similar to Safia

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

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Sibling names for Safia

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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