Girls' name · since 1976
Safiyyah
768 babies named Safiyyah in U.S. Social Security records since 1976, with the highest year being 2025. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #8,992 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #4,005 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 768
- born since 1976
- 2010s
- peak decade
Safiyyah currently ranks #4005 among girls' names in America, with 768 babies recorded since 1976.
Safiyyah has 768 recorded births among girls since 1976, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #4005 as of the latest data, more common than 77% of girls, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1976 to 2025.
- #8,992 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #4,005 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 768 born since 1976
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Safiyyah ranks #8,992 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #4,005 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 768 born since 1976, peaking in the 2010s.
- #8,992 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #4,005 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 768
- born since 1976
- 2010s
- peak decade
Safiyyah's 768 recorded births place it above 87.56% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
6 jurisdictions carry state-level records, led by New York.
How Safiyyah compares
768 Top 37% higher than 63% of 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Safiyyah's all-time total is 104% above the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Safiyyah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 768 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 36 | 21 | 19,840 |
Safiyyah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Safiyyah splits its recorded history at 2001: 64% of all births land in the more recent half, 36% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 1979 (7 births) -- compare that against the 2025 peak of 36 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Safiyyah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1976–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 36
- Annual births at peak, across 50 years of records
Safiyyah by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (205 births, 27% of the file).
2010s was Safiyyah's strongest decade.
205 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 27% of all-time use.
Safiyyah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 33
1970s
33 births
- 1980s
1980s
119 births
- 1990s
1990s
116 births
- 2000s
2000s
136 births
- 2010s
2010s
205 births
- 2020s
2020s
159 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 205 births (27% of all-time use).
How Safiyyah compares to similarly-sized names
Years in SSA records vs. share of all-time use concentrated in the single peak year, among 15 girls names closest to Safiyyah's total volume
Safiyyah by state
Where Safiyyah concentrates geographically, total births since 1976
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 37 | 4.8% |
| #2 | Pennsylvania | | 25 | 3.3% |
| #3 | Illinois | | 11 | 1.4% |
| #4 | New Jersey | | 7 | 0.9% |
| #5 | California | | 5 | 0.7% |
| #6 | Texas | | 5 | 0.7% |
37 of 768 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 6 reporting states.
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What to do with Safiyyah's data
- Safiyyah's usage has stayed within range of its 2010s decade-level peak (205 total births) through the 2020s (159) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
- New York records the most Safiyyahs (37 births) -- see the full state breakdown if geography matters to your decision. New York names
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Safiyyah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2025)
Similar record span (~49 yrs)
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, 1976–2025 (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 Safiyyah 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.