Safa
Safa was given to 249 girls in 2025, #1,007 among girls’ names; 2,945 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,920 Americans named Safa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Safa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Safa?
#1,007 among girls’ names, 2025
Safa rose from #1,949 in 2015 to #1,007 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.06 to 0.15 per 1,000.
249 babies in 2025, the peak
Safa peaked in 2025, when 249 girls were given it, #1,007 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 213 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 249 | #1,007 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 213 | #1,139 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 156 | #1,438 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 128 | #1,657 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 121 | #1,719 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 117 | #1,726 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 133 | #1,605 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 122 | #1,705 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 129 | #1,672 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 102 | #1,969 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 104 | #1,949 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 92 | #2,112 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 85 | #2,206 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 98 | #1,999 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 74 | #2,477 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 67 | #2,687 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 75 | #2,525 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,796 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 68 | #2,707 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,882 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 66 | #2,598 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 58 | #2,801 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 61 | #2,630 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 79 | #2,134 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 46 | #3,081 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,967 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,868 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,623 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,981 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,156 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,750 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,346 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,346 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,958 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,339 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,481 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,586 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,580 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,236 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,006 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,346 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,282 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,981 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,090 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,478 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Safa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Safa has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 45 years of records.
Girls and boys named Safa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Safa, and how old are they?
2,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,945 Americans ever recorded as Safa. The median Safa alive today is 10 years old; half are between 4 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 3,196 people named Safa (2,944 women and girls, 252 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,968 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 8 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 217 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 948 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,750 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Safa born?
The states with the most babies named Safa are New York, Minnesota and Texas, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 33 | #515 | 1.9× |
| Minnesota | 30 | #183 | 4.5× |
| Texas | 29 | #1,001 | 0.7× |
| California | 20 | #1,268 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 14 | #702 | 1.7× |
| Michigan | 13 | #632 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 12 | #659 | 0.8× |
| Maryland | 10 | #542 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 10 | #974 | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 9 | #830 | 1.7× |
Where Safa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Safa is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1978 it was given 4.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Safa with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 7,907 babies since 1880, Safa is the most given (37% of them). In 2025 it was given to 249 of their 517 babies (48%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Safa
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Safa and names like it
- Compare Safa and SafiyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSafa peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Safa since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Safa.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Safa alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.