Safiyah Girl
How popular is Safiyah?
#4,545 girl name in 2025
30 baby girls were named Safiyah in the US in 2025, making it the 4545th most popular girl name.
Safiyah popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #4,545 for girls (▼ 252 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 30 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (+3% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #4,724 in 2015, #4,755 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2023 (47 girls) |
| Highest rank | #3,386 in 2023 |
| First recorded | 1985 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Safiyah counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Safiya family of names ranked #976 for girls in 2025 (#1,033 the year before), with 211 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Safiya | 168 | 80% |
| Safiyah | 30 | 14% |
| Saffiyah | 7 | 3% |
| Saffiya | 6 | 3% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Safiyah is most popular
Babies named Safiyah per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New York: 0.1 per 1,000 (20 girls)
- Pennsylvania: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- California: 0.0 per 1,000 (16 girls)
- Texas: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 girls)
Safiyah by decade
Girl names about as popular as Safiyah
Questions
- Is Safiyah a boy or girl name?
- Safiyah is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Safiyah were girls.
- How popular is the name Safiyah?
- 30 baby girls were named Safiyah in the US in 2025, making it the 4545th most popular girl name.
- When was Safiyah most popular?
- Safiyah peaked in 2023, when 47 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #3,386 in 2023.
- How many people are named Safiyah?
- 799 babies have been named Safiyah in the US since 1880. We estimate about 793 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 12.
- Where is Safiyah most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Safiyah was most common in New York, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.