Safia
- #2,387 for girls in 2025, 75 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 75 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,616since 1975
Safia over time
Rank among girls' names. Safia has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,387 | 75 |
| 2024 | #3,047 | 53 |
| 2023 | #2,674 | 65 |
| 2022 | #2,792 | 61 |
| 2021 | #3,037 | 54 |
| 2020 | #3,338 | 46 |
| 2019 | #3,337 | 47 |
| 2018 | #3,201 | 50 |
| 2017 | #3,346 | 47 |
| 2016 | #3,010 | 55 |
| 2015 | #2,846 | 61 |
| 2014 | #2,969 | 57 |
| 2013 | #2,804 | 61 |
| 2012 | #2,935 | 58 |
| 2011 | #3,014 | 56 |
| 2010 | #2,906 | 59 |
| 2009 | #3,252 | 51 |
| 2008 | #3,710 | 43 |
| 2007 | #4,131 | 37 |
| 2006 | #3,795 | 40 |
| 2005 | #4,118 | 34 |
| 2004 | #3,819 | 37 |
| 2003 | #3,805 | 36 |
| 2002 | #3,283 | 42 |
| 2001 | #3,549 | 37 |
| 2000 | #4,185 | 29 |
| 1999 | #4,201 | 27 |
| 1998 | #3,914 | 29 |
| 1997 | #3,448 | 33 |
| 1996 | #6,064 | 15 |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 |
| 1993 | #6,264 | 14 |
| 1992 | #6,314 | 14 |
| 1991 | #4,808 | 20 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 |
| 1989 | #4,670 | 19 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 |
| 1987 | #5,074 | 15 |
| 1986 | #4,186 | 19 |
| 1985 | #5,348 | 13 |
| 1984 | #5,899 | 11 |
| 1983 | #5,457 | 12 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 |
| 1981 | #6,804 | 9 |
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| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 |
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| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Safia! It came in at #9,067, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1975–1978, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Safia is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#835 · 1 in 4,296
- Ohio#959 · 1 in 5,252
- Virginia#1,180 · 1 in 6,748
- New York#1,235 · 1 in 7,121
- Illinois#1,240 · 1 in 7,388
Best ever in a state: #664 in Minnesota, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #835 | 5 | 1 in 4,296 |
| Ohio | #959 | 9 | 1 in 5,252 |
| Virginia | #1,180 | 5 | 1 in 6,748 |
| New York | #1,235 | 11 | 1 in 7,121 |
| Illinois | #1,240 | 6 | 1 in 7,388 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,392 | 5 | 1 in 9,338 |
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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 Safia
- 660 spots since 2024 (#3,047 → #2,387)
- 951 spots since 2020 (#3,338 → #2,387)
- 459 spots since 2015 (#2,846 → #2,387)
- Debuted 1975
- Peaked 2025 at #2,387 (75 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,430 girls born in 2025 were named Safia (0.00%)
- 34.1% of all girls named Safia (551) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 17 | #8,061 (1979) | #8,804 |
| 1980s | 120 | #4,186 (1986) | #5,612 |
| 1990s | 188 | #3,448 (1997) | #5,684 |
| 2000s | 386 | #3,252 (2009) | #3,765 |
| 2010s | 551 | #2,804 (2013) | #3,037 |
| 2020s | 354 | #2,387 (2025) | #2,879 |
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.
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