Safiya
#1,326 for girls in 2025, 168 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 168 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,831since 1973
Safiya over time
Rank among girls' names. Safiya 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 | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,326 | 168 |
| 2024 | #1,390 | 162 |
| 2023 | #1,421 | 157 |
| 2022 | #1,486 | 147 |
| 2021 | #1,419 | 152 |
| 2020 | #1,872 | 103 |
| 2019 | #1,898 | 105 |
| 2018 | #2,190 | 85 |
| 2017 | #2,074 | 94 |
| 2016 | #2,188 | 88 |
| 2015 | #2,619 | 68 |
| 2014 | #2,442 | 74 |
| 2013 | #2,484 | 72 |
| 2012 | #2,770 | 63 |
| 2011 | #2,483 | 73 |
| 2010 | #2,493 | 74 |
| 2009 | #2,592 | 71 |
| 2008 | #2,754 | 66 |
| 2007 | #2,684 | 68 |
| 2006 | #3,054 | 55 |
| 2005 | #2,865 | 57 |
| 2004 | #3,071 | 50 |
| 2003 | #3,472 | 41 |
| 2002 | #3,730 | 35 |
| 2001 | #3,549 | 37 |
| 2000 | #3,527 | 37 |
| 1999 | #5,039 | 21 |
| 1998 | #3,497 | 34 |
| 1997 | #4,239 | 25 |
| 1996 | #4,883 | 20 |
| 1995 | #3,969 | 26 |
| 1994 | #4,521 | 22 |
| 1993 | #4,524 | 22 |
| 1992 | #3,866 | 27 |
| 1991 | #4,497 | 22 |
| 1990 | #4,230 | 23 |
| 1989 | #2,986 | 36 |
| 1988 | #3,483 | 27 |
| 1987 | #3,424 | 26 |
| 1986 | #3,203 | 28 |
| 1985 | #3,730 | 22 |
| 1984 | #3,233 | 26 |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 |
| 1982 | #3,647 | 22 |
| 1981 | #2,488 | 38 |
| 1980 | #3,719 | 21 |
| 1979 | #3,668 | 21 |
| 1978 | #2,801 | 29 |
| 1977 | #2,715 | 30 |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 |
| 1975 | #4,370 | 14 |
| 1974 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
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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.
Where Safiya is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Minnesota#673 · 1 in 3,094
- New York#801 · 1 in 4,189
- Pennsylvania#1,227 · 1 in 8,058
- Illinois#1,499 · 1 in 9,750
- California#2,167 · 1 in 19,357
Best ever in a state: #412 in New York, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Minnesota | #673 | 7 | 1 in 3,094 |
| New York | #801 | 19 | 1 in 4,189 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,227 | 6 | 1 in 8,058 |
| Illinois | #1,499 | 5 | 1 in 9,750 |
| California | #2,167 | 9 | 1 in 19,357 |
| Texas | #2,463 | 7 | 1 in 21,849 |
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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 Safiya
- 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)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2025 at #1,326 (168 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,567 girls born in 2025 were named Safiya (0.01%)
- 31.4% of all girls named Safiya (889) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 123 | #2,715 (1977) | #4,529 |
| 1980s | 264 | #2,488 (1981) | #3,402 |
| 1990s | 242 | #3,497 (1998) | #4,327 |
| 2000s | 517 | #2,592 (2009) | #3,130 |
| 2010s | 796 | #1,898 (2019) | #2,364 |
| 2020s | 889 | #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 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 15,695 of them was named Safiya, which outranked 89.3% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,860Samiya104
- #1,860Taylin104
- #1,860Zamora104
- #1,872Safiya103
- #1,872Bennett103
- #1,872Danae103
- #1,872Isela103
- #1,883Adilyn102
- #1,883Alahni102
- #1,883Blanca102
Tied with 10 names at #1,872; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.