Safaa

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Safaa: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #373 in 2014, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#373highest recorded position
11groupings 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	#2096
1997	#2411
1998	#1319
1999	#1261
2000	#993
2001	#1728
2002	#1245
2003	#1722
2004	#912
2005	#1165
2006	#869
2007	#793
2008	#537
2009	#464
2010	#438
2011	#442
2012	#437
2013	#408
2014	#373
2015	#393
2016	#387
2017	#549
2018	#497
2019	#651
2020	#604
2021	#603
2022	#655
2023	#574
2024	#565

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 2024: #565 among girls in England and Wales, #790 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2096 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: #373 among girls in England and Wales, in 2014 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Safaa appears in 2 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 1,688 births with the name.

Safaa across 2 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.

Safaa'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	#2096 (1996)	#373 (2014)	#565 (2024)	29 of 29	1,688 (1996–2024)	120 (2014)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#905 (2022)	#885 (2025)	#885 (2025)	2 of 4	6 (2022–2025)	3 (2022)

Safaa 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 Safaa in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	42	4 of 10	11
2000s	344	10 of 10	34
2010sbusiest	981	10 of 10	98
2020s	321	5 of 10	64

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 98 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2016 and 2017, when recorded births fell by 39, from 118 to 79.

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

Safaa 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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #373 in England and Wales in 2014.

Safaa'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	#565	69	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#574	67	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#655	57	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#603	64	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#604	64	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#651	60	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#497	86	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#549	79	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#387	118	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#393	117	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#373	120	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#408	104	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#437	104	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#442	97	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#438	96	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#464	90	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#537	71	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#793	41	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#869	34	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1165	21	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#912	29	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1722	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1245	16	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1728	10	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#993	21	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1261	15	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1319	14	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2096	7	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #373, first reached in 2014.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 120 births, registered in England and Wales in 2014.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2022, 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.

Saerlaith · #166, 13y
Safa · #140, 30y
Safah · #727, 29y
Safeer · #1878, 13y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Octavia · #373, 29y
Alexandre · #374, 30y
Elyse · #372, 30y
Giulia · #372, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Octavia · #373, 29y
Alexandre · #374, 30y
Clarice · #374, 29y
Ela · #372, 30y

Safaa was ranked #373 in England and Wales · Girls in 2014. 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.

Safaa 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 Safaa without appearing here.

Safaa moved ahead of

Pauline Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1722 and #1269 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #912 and #2802.
Janice Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1722 and #1722 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #912 and #2530.
Jeanette Compare
In 1996 they stood at #2096 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #2411 and #3824.
Carol Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1722 and #1722 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #912 and #2278.

Moved ahead of Safaa

Beau Compare
In 2000 they stood at #993 and #3247 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1728 and #1107.
Mila Compare
In 2010 they stood at #438 and #616 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #442 and #261.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #442 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #437 and #284.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #651 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #604 and #460.

Moved the opposite way to Safaa

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Safaa went from #2096 to #565 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Safaa went from #2096 to #565 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Safaa went from #2096 to #565 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Safaa went from #2096 to #565 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Safaa

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Safaa went from #2096 to #565 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Safaa went from #2096 to #565 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Safaa went from #2096 to #565 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Safaa went from #2096 to #565 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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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 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #373 in England and Wales in 2014. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Safaa

Safaa at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Safaa across 2 official records

Safaa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Safaa appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Safaa at a glance

Safaa across 2 official records

Safaa by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Safaa 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 Safaa

Safaa and the names beside it

Safaa moved ahead of

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