Safiyyah
Safiyyah was given to 36 girls in 2025, #4,051 among girls’ names; 768 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Safiyyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Safiyyah?
#4,051 among girls’ names, 2025
Safiyyah rose from #5,100 in 2015 to #4,051 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 15.1 to 22.4 per million.
36 babies in 2025, the peak
Safiyyah peaked in 2025, when 36 girls were given it, #4,051 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 34 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #4,051 | 22.4 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,277 | 21.0 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,876 | 10.6 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,945 | 12.8 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,910 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,522 | 18.6 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,654 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 34 | #4,225 | 20.0 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,759 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,950 | 12.4 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,100 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,657 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,674 | 10.8 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,137 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,299 | 11.9 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,217 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,536 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,380 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,684 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,090 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,758 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,433 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,999 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,083 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,627 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,732 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,117 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,914 | 12.5 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,635 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,316 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,547 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,319 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,538 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,254 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,744 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,587 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,226 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,571 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,069 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,029 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,673 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,133 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,675 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,600 | 13.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,259 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,769 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,294 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,401 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,120 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Safiyyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Safiyyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 49 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Safiyyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Safiyyah, and how old are they?
An estimated 756 Americans named Safiyyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 8 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 525 people named Safiyyah (520 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 608 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,684 babies since 1880, Safiyyah is the third most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 256 babies (14%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Safiyyah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Safiyyah and names like it
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