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Safina

#5,072 in 2025Girls' name

From Russian Сафина; literal meaning unconfirmed

Safina has been given to 384 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #5,072 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Safina, 2025

1 in 128,000

Safina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Safina: meaning, origin, and history

From Russian Сафина; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Safina means

Safina is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

* (female Russian surname): From Russian Сафина (Safina), from Сафин (Safin). Analyzable as Safin + -a.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Safina (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Safina is used in English.

Safina comes through Russian Сафина.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 384 girls were recorded with the name Safina between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2024; its best national rank was #4,364 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,814 in 2020 to #5,072 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,355 in 2015 to #5,072 in 2025.

How common is Safina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 128,000
26 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 61,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,072
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
88,382 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Safina 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 88,382 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Safina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Safinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Safina was born before 2018 — so the typical Safina is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
384
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Choose a decade

2010s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (169).

Is Safina 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
−708
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+742
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,283
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.86×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.8%
Peak was 2024 (33)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,364
2024

Spellings of Safina

Safina is not the most common spelling — Sofia is, with 24.4% against Safina's 0.05%.

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 Safina is used

Across 1910–2025, Safina was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 348,408 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 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. Safina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Safina around the world

Where Safina 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
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • France
    1981–2023
    #4,579
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2009–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1968–1968
    #679
    in 1968

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

Safina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,072
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 742
Best rank ever
#4,364
2024
Peak year
2024
33 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
384
Count in 2025
26

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

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Sibling names for Safina

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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