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Safira

#4,646 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Sapphira

Safira has been given to 297 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #4,646 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Safira, 2025

1 in 111,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Safira: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Sapphira

Ancient Greek and Italian

What Safira means

Safira is a form of Sapphira.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Safira → Sapphira. The family’s meaning is “sapphire”, recorded in the naming reference for Sapphira.

Origin, language, and formation

Safira is used in Indonesian. Its origins include Ancient Greek and Italian.

Safira comes through Ancient Greek Σαπφειρη.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sapphira.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Indonesian, Safira is pronounced /ˈsafira/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 297 girls were recorded with the name Safira between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 2025; its best national rank was #4,283 in 1984.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,936 in 2020 to #4,646 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,386 in 2015 to #4,646 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Safira?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 53,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,646
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Safira 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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Safira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Safiras were born

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

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
297
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.7% of all recorded uses (121).

Is Safira 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
+3,694
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+6,290
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,740
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (30)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,283
1984

Spellings of Safira

Safira is not the most common spelling — Sandra is, with 50.5% against Safira's 0.02%.

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 Safira is used

Across 1910–2025, Safira was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,829,369 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Safira has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Safira around the world

Where Safira 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
    1997–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • France
    1980–2025
    #3,690
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2014–2018
    #2,616
    in 2018

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.

Safira by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,646
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6,290
Best rank ever
#4,283
1984
Peak year
2025
30 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
297
Count in 2025
30

Names similar to Safira

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

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Sibling names for Safira

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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