# Safiyyah (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/safiyyah/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 768 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 768 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,751, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 21 | 6,302 |
| 2012 | 15 | 8,141 |
| 2013 | 19 | 6,678 |
| 2014 | 19 | 6,659 |
| 2015 | 27 | 5,102 |
| 2016 | 22 | 5,952 |
| 2017 | 18 | 6,763 |
| 2018 | 34 | 4,226 |
| 2019 | 15 | 7,658 |
| 2020 | 30 | 4,524 |
| 2021 | 21 | 5,914 |
| 2022 | 21 | 5,948 |
| 2023 | 17 | 6,881 |
| 2024 | 34 | 4,278 |
| 2025 | 36 | 4,052 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 69 | 583 |
| 2012 | 70 | 600 |
| 2013 | 90 | 466 |
| 2014 | 74 | 570 |
| 2015 | 86 | 500 |
| 2016 | 73 | 573 |
| 2017 | 93 | 472 |
| 2018 | 80 | 527 |
| 2019 | 63 | 623 |
| 2020 | 81 | 501 |
| 2021 | 77 | 529 |
| 2022 | 71 | 550 |
| 2023 | 72 | 540 |
| 2024 | 89 | 463 |
| 2025 | 85 | 468 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.