Safiya

#1,326 for girls in 2025, 168 births

Peak · girls
2025 · 168 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,831
since 1973

Safiya over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Safiya has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202018girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025#1,326168
2024#1,390162
2023#1,421157
2022#1,486147
2021#1,419152
2020#1,872103
2019#1,898105
2018#2,19085
2017#2,07494
2016#2,18888
2015#2,61968
2014#2,44274
2013#2,48472
2012#2,77063
2011#2,48373
2010#2,49374
2009#2,59271
2008#2,75466
2007#2,68468
2006#3,05455
2005#2,86557
2004#3,07150
2003#3,47241
2002#3,73035
2001#3,54937
2000#3,52737
1999#5,03921
1998#3,49734
1997#4,23925
1996#4,88320
1995#3,96926
1994#4,52122
1993#4,52422
1992#3,86627
1991#4,49722
1990#4,23023
1989#2,98636
1988#3,48327
1987#3,42426
1986#3,20328
1985#3,73022
1984#3,23326
1983#4,10918
1982#3,64722
1981#2,48838
1980#3,71921
1979#3,66821
1978#2,80129
1977#2,71530
1976#4,36314
1975#4,37014
1974#5,36010
1973#8,4235
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First appearance
1973

The first year at least five girls were named Safiya! It came in at #8,423, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1973, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Safiya
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 64 spots since 2024 (#1,390#1,326)
  • 546 spots since 2020 (#1,872#1,326)
  • 1,293 spots since 2015 (#2,619#1,326)
Rise & fade · girls
52 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1973
  • Peaked 2025 at #1,326 (168 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 9,567
  • Highest: 1 in 9,567 girls born in 2025 were named Safiya (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 31.4% of all girls named Safiya (889) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s123#2,715 (1977)#4,529
1980s264#2,488 (1981)#3,402
1990s242#3,497 (1998)#4,327
2000s517#2,592 (2009)#3,130
2010s796#1,898 (2019)#2,364
2020s889#1,326 (2025)#1,486

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Safiya in 2018

girls
#2,190
85 births · 1 in 20,013 girls

Top girls' names in 2018

  1. #1Emma18,824
  2. #2Olivia18,061
  3. #3Ava15,034
  4. #4Isabella14,575
  5. #5Sophia14,013
  6. #6Charlotte13,038
  7. #7Mia12,742
  8. #8Amelia12,405
  9. #9Harper10,646
  10. #10Evelyn10,433
  11. #2,190Safiya85
More about 2018

girls

1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 20,013 of them was named Safiya, which outranked 87.9% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Safiya
  1. #2,179Sheyla86
  2. #2,179Tayla86
  3. #2,179Zipporah86
  4. #2,190Safiya85
  5. #2,190Aarohi85
  6. #2,190Abella85
  7. #2,190Amerie85
  8. #2,207Ahuva84
  9. #2,207Ameena84
  10. #2,207Justine84

Tied with 16 names at #2,190; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2017
Risers
  1. 680Meghan#1,387#707
  2. 567Dior#1,360#793
  3. 367Palmer#1,042#675
  4. 361Adalee#1,217#856
  5. 346Oaklynn#888#542
Fallers
  1. 334Audrina#847#1,181
  2. 234Courtney#952#1,186
  3. 232Marjorie#938#1,170
  4. 228Anabelle#969#1,197
  5. 225Angelique#799#1,024

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2018