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Safiyya

#7,434 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Safi

Safiyya has been given to 212 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #7,434 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Safiyya, 2025

1 in 221,000

Safiyya over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Safiyya: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Safi

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Safiyya means

Safiyya is a feminine form of Safi.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Safiyya → Safi. The family’s meaning is “pure”, recorded in the naming reference for Safi.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Safi.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 212 girls were recorded with the name Safiyya between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2024; its best national rank was #6,354 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,872 in 2020 to #7,434 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,735 in 2015 to #7,434 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 Safiyya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,434
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Safiyya 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Safiyya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Safiyyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Safiyya was born before 2019 — so the typical Safiyya is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
212
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2010s — 45.3% of all recorded uses (96).

Is Safiyya 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
−1,080
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−562
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,301
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.9%
Peak was 2024 (19)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,354
2024

Spellings of Safiyya

Safiyya is not the most common spelling — Saniya is, with 33.7% against Safiyya's 1.0%.

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 Safiyya is used

Across 1910–2025, Safiyya was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,592,652 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

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

Safiyya around the world

Where Safiyya 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
    #997
    in 2025
  • France
    2000–2025
    #1,833
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Safiyya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,434
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 562
Best rank ever
#6,354
2024
Peak year
2024
19 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
212
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Safiyya

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

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Sibling names for Safiyya

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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