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How popular is the name Safiya?
Births per year, rank history and how many Safiyas are alive today.
Safiya (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 455th in 2025 with 88 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2011, when 96 babies were given the name, the 444th most popular that year. It was almost as popular in 2023, with 86 babies given the name that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 651 in 2019 before climbing back to the 455th place it holds today. Numbers have been rising in recent years. Safiya is one spelling of a name also recorded as Safia; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Safiya you are most likely to meet is around 14 years old. Half of all Safiyas born in England and Wales are between 9 and 24, and there are at least 3,900 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 1.2% chance that at least one of them will be called Safiya.
How many babies are named Safiya each year?
Includes all spellings: Safiya, Safia. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Safiya spelling rank?
Where does the Safia spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Safiya most popular?
Safiya peaked in 2012, when 172 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Safiya?
At least 3,900 people named Safiya in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Safiya?
Most living Safiyas are between 9 and 24; the most common age is about 14.
Is Safiya becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.