Safwan
Safwan was given to 72 boys in 2025, #2,075 among boys’ names; 965 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Safwan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Safwan?
#2,075 among boys’ names, 2025
Safwan rose from #3,352 in 2015 to #2,075 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 17.7 to 42.2 per million.
72 babies in 2025, the peak
Safwan peaked in 2025, when 72 boys were given it, #2,075 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 56 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72 | #2,075 | 42.2 |
| 2024 | 56 | #2,468 | 32.5 |
| 2023 | 52 | #2,572 | 30.4 |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,315 | 35.5 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,406 | 32.6 |
| 2020 | 50 | #2,577 | 29.0 |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,457 | 30.7 |
| 2018 | 60 | #2,277 | 33.0 |
| 2017 | 47 | #2,663 | 25.4 |
| 2016 | 40 | #2,978 | 21.1 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #3,352 | 17.7 |
| 2014 | 41 | #2,879 | 21.3 |
| 2013 | 24 | #4,155 | 12.7 |
| 2012 | 33 | #3,346 | 17.4 |
| 2011 | 28 | #3,772 | 14.7 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,790 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 22 | #4,563 | 11.1 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,672 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,169 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 15 | #5,728 | 7.3 |
| 2005 | 22 | #4,157 | 11.0 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,750 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,991 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,295 | 9.8 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,354 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,742 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,541 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,204 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 6 | #9,050 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,987 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,676 | 3.2 |
| 1991 | 6 | #8,055 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,127 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Safwan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Safwan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Safwan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Safwan, and how old are they?
An estimated 955 Americans named Safwan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 833 people named Safwan (0 women and girls, 833 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 623 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Where are babies named Safwan born?
The states with the most babies named Safwan are New York, Minnesota and Illinois, with 90% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 26 | #599 | 4.3× |
| Minnesota | 10 | #546 | 4.0× |
| Illinois | 8 | #999 | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,234 | 0.2× |
Where Safwan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Safwan is most over-represented in New York: since 1983 it was given 4.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Safwan with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,029 babies since 1880, Safwan is the most given (94% of them). In 2025 it was given to 72 of their 72 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Safwan
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 Safwan and names like it
- Compare Safwan and SafwaanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Safwan since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Safwan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Safwan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.