Safa
#1,004 for girls in 2025, 249 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #10,821
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 249 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,939since 1978
Safa over time
Rank among girls' names. Safa has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,004 | 249 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,135 | 213 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,430 | 156 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #1,648 | 128 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,710 | 121 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,721 | 117 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,598 | 133 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,692 | 122 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,665 | 129 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,956 | 102 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,937 | 104 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,096 | 92 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,187 | 85 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,983 | 98 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,454 | 74 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,670 | 67 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,510 | 75 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,773 | 65 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,684 | 68 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,850 | 61 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,580 | 66 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,781 | 58 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,610 | 61 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,126 | 79 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,046 | 46 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,940 | 48 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,804 | 31 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,573 | 33 | — | |
| 1997 | #3,897 | 28 | — | |
| 1996 | #4,059 | 26 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,670 | 29 | — | |
| 1994 | #4,238 | 24 | — | |
| 1993 | #4,257 | 24 | — | |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 | — | |
| 1991 | #5,181 | 18 | — | |
| 1990 | #5,286 | 17 | — | |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | — | |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 | — | |
| 1987 | #5,923 | 12 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | — | |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | — | |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 | — | |
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| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 | — | |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | — | |
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| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Safa! It came in at #6,948, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1980, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Safa is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Minnesota#220 · 1 in 891
- Ohio#971 · 1 in 5,401
- Virginia#1,050 · 1 in 5,763
- Illinois#1,083 · 1 in 6,050
- Pennsylvania#1,413 · 1 in 9,757
Best ever in a state: #180 in Minnesota, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | #220 | 25 | 1 in 891 |
| Ohio | #971 | 9 | 1 in 5,401 |
| Virginia | #1,050 | 6 | 1 in 5,763 |
| Illinois | #1,083 | 8 | 1 in 6,050 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,413 | 5 | 1 in 9,757 |
| New York | #1,425 | 9 | 1 in 9,028 |
| California | #1,579 | 15 | 1 in 11,635 |
| Texas | #1,619 | 14 | 1 in 11,106 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Safa
- 131 spots since 2024 (#1,135 → #1,004)
- 717 spots since 2020 (#1,721 → #1,004)
- 933 spots since 2015 (#1,937 → #1,004)
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 2025 at #1,004 (249 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 6,455 girls born in 2025 were named Safa (0.02%)
- 34.2% of all girls named Safa (1,006) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 8 | #6,948 (1978) | #6,948 |
| 1980s | 71 | #5,923 (1987) | #7,538 |
| 1990s | 243 | #3,573 (1998) | #4,462 |
| 2000s | 627 | #2,126 (2002) | #2,690 |
| 2010s | 1,006 | #1,598 (2019) | #2,024 |
| 2020s | 984 | #1,004 (2025) | #1,441 |
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.
Safa in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 13,561 of them was named Safa, which outranked 90.3% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,698Saira122
- #1,698Shannon122
- #1,698Sunnie122
- #1,710Safa121
- #1,710Annalia121
- #1,710Cienna121
- #1,710Emori121
- #1,721Amya120
- #1,721Eila120
- #1,721Iyanna120
Tied with 10 names at #1,710; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.