Safia — #3057 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Safia

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,541 babies named Safia between 1975 and 2024, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Safia currently holds the #3057 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 65 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Safia performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 551 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Safia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 188 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Safia in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Safia 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 1,541 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.