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Safiyyah

#4,051 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Safiyya

Safiyyah has been given to 768 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #4,051 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Safiyyah, 2025

1 in 92,100

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Safiyyah: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Safiyya

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Safiyyah means

Safiyyah is a alternate transcription of Safiyya.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Safiyya.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 768 girls were recorded with the name Safiyyah between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 36 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,600 in 1981.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,522 in 2020 to #4,051 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,100 in 2015 to #4,051 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 Safiyyah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 92,100
36 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 44,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,051
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
63,832 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Safiyyah 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 63,832 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Safiyyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Safiyyahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Safiyyah was born before 2008 — so the typical Safiyyah is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
26.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
768
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Choose a decade

2010s — 26.7% of all recorded uses (205).

Is Safiyyah 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
+226
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+471
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,049
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (36)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,600
1981

Spellings of Safiyyah

Safiyyah is not the most common spelling — Saniyah is, with 29.0% against Safiyyah's 3.1%.

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 Safiyyah is used

Across 1910–2025, Safiyyah was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 688,315 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3New Jersey1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Safiyyah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Safiyyah around the world

Where Safiyyah 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
    #468
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2011–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • France
    2010–2025
    #2,571
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2010–2024
    #1,968
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1988–1988
    #657
    in 1988

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Safiyyah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,051
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 471
Best rank ever
#3,600
1981
Peak year
2025
36 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
768
Count in 2025
36

Names similar to Safiyyah

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

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Sibling names for Safiyyah

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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