Saphia
Saphia was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 108 Americans have been recorded with it between 1981 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Saphia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Saphia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,197, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 2007, the peak
Saphia peaked in 2007, when 12 girls were given it, #10,032 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #17,197 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 6 | #15,015 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 8 | #12,019 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,821 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,234 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,400 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,809 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,815 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,066 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,111 | 3.2 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 12 | #10,032 | 6.2 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,041 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,200 | 3.9 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,389 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,041 | 2.7 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,763 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Saphia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Saphia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Saphia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Saphia, and how old are they?
An estimated 107 Americans named Saphia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 166 people named Saphia (166 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 84 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times 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).
How common is the spelling Saphia?
Saphia is a less common spelling of Safiya: SSA has recorded 108 Saphia and 2,831 Safiya since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,555 babies since 1880, Saphia is the third most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 243 babies recorded by SSA was a Saphia (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Saphia
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 Saphia and names like it
- Compare Saphia and SafiyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sSaphia peaked in 2007.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Saphia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Saphia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.