Safwan
#2,075 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Safwan has been given to 965 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #2,075 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 72 recorded.
Babies named Safwan, 2025
1 in 46,000
Safwan over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Safwan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 46,000
- 72 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 23,700
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,075
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 31,916 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Safwan sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 31,916 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Safwan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Safwans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Safwan was born before 2017 — so the typical Safwan is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 40.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 93.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 965
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 40.4% of all recorded uses (390).
Is Safwan 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
- +393
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +502
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,277
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.12×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (72)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.4% average annual change
Spellings of Safwan
Safwan is not the most common spelling — Salman is, with 21.0% against Safwan's 7.8%.
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 Safwan is used
Across 1910–2025, Safwan was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 233,146 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Minnesota1 in 50,000
- 2New York1 in 50,000
- 3California1 in —
- 4Florida1 in —
- 5Illinois1 in —
- 6Michigan1 in —
- 7New Jersey1 in —
- 8Ohio1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Safwan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Safwan around the world
Where Safwan 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 & Wales1996–2025#798in 2025
- Scotland2023–2023#728in 2023
- Ireland2013–2025#432in 2025
- France1986–2025#410in 2025
- Canada2001–2024#1,817in 2024
- South Australia2012–2012#514in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Safwan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Safwan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Safwan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.