Safiya

What Safiya means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Safiya yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 5 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Safiya?

US: Rising: up from #2619 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #564 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 168 girls got the name (#1326 that year). First in the US records in 1973.

How common

• About 1 in 9,567 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,878 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 5,964 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in PA (0.45 per 1,000 girls), NY (0.43 per 1,000 girls), IL (0.29 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Safiya is #1326 in the US and #455 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Safiya were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Safiyyah36 US · 85 E&W
• Safiyah30 US · 43 E&W
• Sofiya51 US · 22 E&W
• Safiyya15 US · 34 E&W
• Savaya26 US
• Saffiyah7 US · 12 E&W
• Sofya12 US
• Sofiyah0 US · 12 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Safiya

Girls

• Lucia#83Variant of Lucy, meaning “light”^*
• Kailani#253“sea + sky”^*
• Amira#132“princess”^*
• Kaylani#185Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,054 in 2015, #185 in 2025
• Sylvie#282Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,175 in 2015, #282 in 2025
• Millie#73Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #469 in 2015, #73 in 2025

For a brother

• Luka#85Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #85 vs #261 in 2025
• Enzo#72“home + ruler”^*
• Miles#44Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #107 in 2015, #44 in 2025
• Elias#13Form of Elijah, meaning “Yahweh is my god”^*
• Santiago#26Spanish form of James, meaning “May He Heel”^*
• Milo#119Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #288 in 2015, #119 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Safiya’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.