Safah — #11586 US girls' name
36 babies named Safah in U.S. Social Security records since 1999, with the highest year being 2024. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 34% of names given to girls today.
58% of everyone ever named Safah was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Safah in 2024 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Safah
The Social Security Administration has registered 36 babies named Safah between 1999 and 2024, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Safah currently holds the #11586 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 8 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Safah performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 21 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Safah shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade.
No etymological entry is currently available for Safah 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 36 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.
Safah at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Safah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1999
- Peak year (2024)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 26 years of records
Currently ranks #11586 among girls.
36 total births across 26 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2024 with 8 births in a single year.
Safah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2020s
- 21 births that decade — 58% of Safah's all-time total
Safah decade highlights
- Peak decade 21 births
- Runner-up 10 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2020s was Safah's strongest decade
21 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 58% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1999–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.