Safi — #7490 US boys' name
183 babies named Safi in U.S. Social Security records since 2000, with the highest year being 2020. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 47% of names given to boys today.
37% of everyone ever named Safi was born in this single decade.
14 babies were named Safi in 2020 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Safi
The Social Security Administration has registered 183 babies named Safi between 2000 and 2024, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Safi currently holds the #7490 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 14 babies received it in a single year. Safi is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 87 additional births since 2012.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Safi performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 67 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Safi shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Safi in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Safi 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 183 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.
Safi at a glance
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Current rank
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Safi popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–2000
- Peak year (2020)
- 14
- Annual births at peak — across 25 years of records
Currently ranks #7490 among boys.
183 total births across 25 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2020 with 14 births in a single year.
Safi popularity over time — girls
87 total births recorded since 2012 (Safi as girls' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The girls' variant of Safi accounts for 32% of total recorded use across both genders.
Safi by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 67 births that decade — 37% of Safi's all-time total
Safi decade highlights
- Peak decade 67 births
- Runner-up 62 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Safi's strongest decade
67 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 37% of all-time use.
Safi by state
Where Safi concentrates geographically — total births since 2000
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Pennsylvania | | 10 | 5.5% |
10 of 183 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Pennsylvania 5.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Pennsylvania accounts for 5.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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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, 2000–2024 (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.