Safari — #8143 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Safari

The Social Security Administration has registered 354 babies named Safari between 1992 and 2024, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Safari currently holds the #8143 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 27 babies received it in a single year. Safari is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 129 additional births since 2014.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Safari performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 142 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Safari shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Safari in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Safari 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 354 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.