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Girl's name · #1333 in the US (2025) · Trending
Safiya is climbing: on the charts since 1973, it reached #1333 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 170 girls given the name last year. Roughly 2,800 have carried it all-time.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 12 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#139 in Belgium (2025) · #178 in France (2025) · #255 in Netherlands (2025) · #277 in Austria (2025) · #458 in England & Wales (2025) · #699 in Sweden (2025) · #778 in Switzerland (2025) · #998 in Scotland (2025) · #793 in Canada (2024).
Among 31 notable people named Safiya:
Entertainers appear 2.29× more often than among typical names — e.g. Safiya Songhai, American film director.
Together with its spelling variant Safia (#2403), Safiya would rank around #1029 with about 240 births last year — the newborns split about 69/31 between Safiya and Safia.
Similar names: Safia · Zaynab · Safa · Zinnia · Isra · Inaya
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