Safa

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Safa: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Safa: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #140, and it stood at #415 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
46times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#140highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#916
1997	#638
1998	#787
1999	#453
2000	#478
2001	#362
2002	#299
2003	#295
2004	#303
2005	#272
2006	#210
2007	#203
2008	#207
2009	#221
2010	#226
2011	#207
2012	#202
2013	#211
2014	#221
2015	#229
2016	#238
2017	#201
2018	#210
2019	#193
2020	#209
2021	#254
2022	#227
2023	#186
2024	#140

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2025: #415 among girls in Norway, #483 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #916 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #140 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #415 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Safa appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 5,465 births with the name.

Safa across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Safa's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#916 (1996)	#140 (2024)	#140 (2024)	29 of 29	5,465 (1996–2024)	355 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#559 (2003)	#483 (2025)	#483 (2025)	9 of 23	37 (2003–2025)	7 (2025)
England and Wales · Boys	#4685 (2013)	#4001 (2022)	#5119 (2024)	4 of 12	14 (2013–2024)	4 (2016)
Norway · Girls	#371 (2023)	#259 (2024)	#415 (2025)	3 of 3	32 (2023–2025)	16 (2024)

Safa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Safa in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	156	4 of 10	39
2000s	1,668	10 of 10	167
2010s	2,386	10 of 10	239
2020sbusiest	1,255	5 of 10	251

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 251 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2023 and 2024, when recorded births rose by 84, from 271 to 355.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Safa appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #140 in England and Wales in 2024.

Safa's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#140	355	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#186	271	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#227	206	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4001	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#254	188	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#209	235	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#193	255	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#210	246	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#201	262	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#238	217	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#229	220	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#221	232	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#211	241	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#4685	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#202	247	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#207	245	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#226	221	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#221	227	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#207	249	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#203	254	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#210	231	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#272	162	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#303	135	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#295	135	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#299	122	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#362	91	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#478	62	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#453	65	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#787	29	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#638	39	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#916	23	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#415	7	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#259	16	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#371	9	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#483	7	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#568	6	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#752	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#559	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#260	14	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #140, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 355 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Saeed · #761, 29y
Saerlaith · #166, 13y
Safaa · #373, 30y
Safah · #727, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Cayden · #140, 26y
Lenny · #140, 30y
Lorenzo · #139, 31y
Rohan · #139, 34y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Avery · #140, 24y
Lenny · #140, 30y
Etta · #141, 24y
Tamzin · #139, 26y

Safa was ranked #140 in England and Wales · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Safa and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Safa without appearing here.

Safa moved ahead of

Tracey Compare
In 1996 they stood at #916 and #783 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #638 and #1450.
Denise Compare
In 1998 they stood at #787 and #664 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #453 and #1216.
Eileen Compare
In 1996 they stood at #916 and #916 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #638 and #1365.
Sofie Compare
In 1998 they stood at #787 and #701 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #453 and #1018.

Moved ahead of Safa

Maja Compare
In 2012 they stood at #559 and #655 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #894 and #71.
Fiadh Compare
In 2012 they stood at #559 and #655 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #894 and #82.
Maisie Compare
In 2012 they stood at #559 and #655 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #894 and #122.
Summer Compare
In 2012 they stood at #559 and #655 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #894 and #124.

Moved the opposite way to Safa

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Safa went from #916 to #140 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Safa went from #916 to #140 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Safa went from #916 to #140 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Safa went from #916 to #140 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Safa

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Safa went from #916 to #140 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Safa went from #916 to #140 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Safa went from #916 to #140 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Safa went from #916 to #140 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #140 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Safa

Safa at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Safa across 4 official records

Safa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Safa appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Safa

Safa and the names beside it

Safa moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Safa

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Moved the same way as Safa

Safa at a glance

Safa across 4 official records

Safa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Safa appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Safa

Safa and the names beside it

Safa moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Safa

Moved the opposite way to Safa

Moved the same way as Safa