Safiyyah

What Safiyyah means

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

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1976, with 8 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Safiyyah?

US: Rising: up from #4981 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #500 in 2015, #468 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 36 girls got the name (#3975 that year). First in the US records in 1976.

How common

• About 1 in 44,646 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,980 baby girls in England and Wales 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 IL (0.11 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Safiyyah is #3975 in the US and #468 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 Safiyyah were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Safiya168 US · 88 E&W
• Safiyah30 US · 43 E&W
• Safiyya15 US · 34 E&W
• Saffiyah7 US · 12 E&W
• 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 Safiyyah

Girls

• Saylor#217“dancer, acrobat”^*
• Palmer#232“a pilgrim from the Holy Land”^*
• Noa#226Hawaiian, meaning “commoner, free man”^*
• Haven#190Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #190 vs #1,512 in 2025
• Emerson#122Editor’s note Used for both: 62% of US babies named Emerson in 2025 were girls
• Kennedy#85“head + ugly”^*

For a brother

• Callahan#227Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,804 in 2015, #227 in 2025
• Bodhi#265Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1976, with 5 babies
• Koa#269Hawaiian, meaning “warrior, courage; koa tree”^*
• River#111From the word “river”^*
• Zayn#251“beauty”^*
• Legend#193Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #391 in 2015, #193 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 Safiyyah’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.