Safa — #1140 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Safa

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,689 babies named Safa between 1978 and 2024, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Safa currently holds the #1140 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 212 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Safa performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,006 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Safa shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 310 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Minnesota. In total, SSA state-level files list Safa in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Safa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,689 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.