Shafi
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shafi has been given to 58 babies in the U.S. since 1974. 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 2009, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Shafi, 2017
1 in 596,000
Shafi 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shafi?
Shafi 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 596,000
- 6 of 3,577,106 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 308,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2017
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 413,245 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shafi sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 413,245 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shafi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shafis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shafi was born before 2005 — so the typical Shafi is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 43.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 89.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 58
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 43.1% of all recorded uses (25).
Is Shafi 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
- —
- 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 2009 (7)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Shafi
Shafi is not the most common spelling — Shawn is, with 49.0% against Shafi'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.
Shafi around the world
Where Shafi 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 & Wales2003–2021#4,789in 2021
- France2009–2009#5,763in 2009
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.
Shafi by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shafi
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shafi
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.