Safiyyah
- #3,975 for girls in 2025, 36 births
- Peak · girls
- 1981 · 23 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 768since 1976
Safiyyah over time
Rank among girls' names. Safiyyah has never cracked the top 3,000 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 | #3,975 | 36 |
| 2024 | #4,207 | 34 |
| 2023 | #6,680 | 17 |
| 2022 | #5,793 | 21 |
| 2021 | #5,748 | 21 |
| 2020 | #4,453 | 30 |
| 2019 | #7,342 | 15 |
| 2018 | #4,144 | 34 |
| 2017 | #6,531 | 18 |
| 2016 | #5,796 | 22 |
| 2015 | #4,981 | 27 |
| 2014 | #6,451 | 19 |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 |
| 2011 | #6,148 | 21 |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 |
| 2009 | #9,975 | 11 |
| 2008 | #8,965 | 13 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 |
| 2006 | #5,906 | 22 |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 |
| 2004 | #10,690 | 9 |
| 2003 | #5,795 | 20 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 |
| 1998 | #4,796 | 22 |
| 1997 | #7,283 | 12 |
| 1996 | #6,064 | 15 |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 |
| 1993 | #6,264 | 14 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 |
| 1985 | #4,860 | 15 |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 |
| 1982 | #4,527 | 16 |
| 1981 | #3,532 | 23 |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 |
| 1978 | #5,958 | 10 |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Safiyyah! It came in at #6,611, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1991, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Safiyyah is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
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- 501+
- Not published
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- Illinois#1,405 · 1 in 8,866
Best ever in a state: #774 in New Jersey, 1998.
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| Illinois | #1,405 | 5 | 1 in 8,866 |
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See more about Safiyyah
- 232 spots since 2024 (#4,207 → #3,975)
- 478 spots since 2020 (#4,453 → #3,975)
- 1,006 spots since 2015 (#4,981 → #3,975)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 1981 at #3,532 (23 births)
- Births halved by 1983, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 44,646 girls born in 2025 were named Safiyyah (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,532 in 1981, was only 1 in 72,524 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.7% of all girls named Safiyyah (205) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 33 | #5,958 (1978) | #6,881 |
| 1980s | 119 | #3,532 (1981) | #6,373 |
| 1990s | 116 | #4,796 (1998) | #7,196 |
| 2000s | 136 | #5,795 (2003) | #8,483 |
| 2010s | 205 | #4,144 (2018) | #6,354 |
| 2020s | 159 | #3,975 (2025) | #5,143 |
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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