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Sefa

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Sefa has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2017. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2017, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Sefa, 2017

1 in 715,000

Sefa over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sefa: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sefa means

Sefa is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Sefa is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Sefa between 2017 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2017; its best national rank was #13,908 in 2017.

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 Sefa?

Sefa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 715,000
5 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only
1 in 370,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
495,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sefa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 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 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sefa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sefas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sefa was born before 2017 — so the typical Sefa is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Sefa 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2017 (5)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#13,908
2017

Spellings of Sefa

Sefa is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 56.0% against Sefa's <0.01%.

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.

Sefa around the world

Where Sefa 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
    2000–2014
    #4,632
    in 2014
  • France
    1987–2025
    #3,159
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Sefa by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#13,908
2017
Peak year
2017
5 that year
First recorded
2017
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sefa

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

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Sibling names for Sefa

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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