Girls' name · since 1989
Safire
Safire has 121 recorded births since 1989 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2021 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #25,060 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 121
- born since 1989
- 2020s
- peak decade
121 girls have been named Safire since 1989, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Safire has 121 recorded births among girls since 1989, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1989 to 2024.
- #25,060 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 121 born since 1989
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Safire ranks #25,060 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 121 born since 1989, peaking in the 2020s.
- #25,060 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 121
- born since 1989
- 2020s
- peak decade
Safire's 121 recorded births place it above 65.34% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Safire's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Safire splits its recorded history at 2006: 51% of all births land in the more recent half, 49% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2001 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2021 peak of 11 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Safire popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1989–2024
- Peak year (2021)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 36 years of records
Safire by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (30 births, 25% of the file).
2020s was Safire's strongest decade.
30 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 25% of all-time use.
Safire births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 6
1980s
6 births
- 1990s
1990s
29 births
- 2000s
2000s
29 births
- 2010s
2010s
27 births
- 2020s
2020s
30 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 30 births (25% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Safire: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1989–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Safire draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.