Safia

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Safia: Recorded since 1948, with a gap of 13 years, it reached #381 in 2019, and it stood at #524 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
66times a registrar ranked it
78years from first to last
#381highest recorded position
20groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Safia's record

Absent from every published list for 13 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#594
1997	#506
1998	#589
1999	#440
2000	#545
2001	#466
2002	#480
2003	#486
2004	#533
2005	#541
2006	#544
2007	#597
2008	#639
2009	#701
2010	#664
2011	#635
2012	#529
2013	#554
2014	#688
2015	#845
2016	#790
2017	#814
2018	#1059
2019	#955
2020	#992
2021	#1224
2022	#1282
2023	#832
2024	#1262

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 28 of the 78 years from 1948 to 2025.

In 2024: #510 among girls in Norway, #790 among girls in Scotland, #1262 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1948–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1948
First recorded at #382 among girls in Norway in 1948 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1948–2025
Highest recorded position: #381 among girls in Norway, in 2019 (recorded 1948–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #524 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Safia appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 1,504 births registered; the earliest is Norway · Girls, from 1948.

Safia across 3 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.

Safia'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
Norway · Girls	#382 (1948)	#381 (2019)	#524 (2025)	28 of 78	151 (1948–2025)	9 (1974)
England and Wales · Girls	#594 (1996)	#440 (1999)	#1262 (2024)	29 of 29	1,504 (1996–2024)	80 (2012)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#620 (2002)	#620 (2002)	#883 (2021)	8 of 20	32 (2002–2021)	5 (2008)

Safia 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 Safia in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	207	4 of 10	52
2000sbusiest	602	10 of 10	60
2010s	540	10 of 10	54
2020s	155	5 of 10	31

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 60 births a year.

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

Safia 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 1948 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #381 in Norway in 2019.

Safia'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	#1262	26	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#832	43	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1282	25	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1224	27	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#992	34	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#955	37	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1059	33	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#814	47	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#790	49	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#845	44	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#688	57	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#554	74	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#529	80	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#635	63	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#664	56	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#701	52	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#639	58	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#597	60	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#544	66	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#541	62	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#533	60	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#486	66	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#480	63	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#466	65	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#545	50	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#440	68	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#589	44	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#506	54	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#594	41	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#524	4	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#510	4	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#459	5	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#421	6	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#381	9	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#466	6	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#547	4	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#464	7	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#443	8	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#574	4	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#590	4	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#609	4	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#618	4	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#526	6	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#651	4	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#485	8	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#675	4	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#670	4	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#633	5	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#594	5	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#594	5	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#528	6	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#476	7	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#403	9	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#523	5	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#549	4	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#424	6	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#382	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#752	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	5	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#695	5	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#665	5	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#620	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	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 1948 and 2025, ranked in 44 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #381, first reached in 2019.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 80 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

Its record falls into 10 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 13 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 76 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.

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Saffron · #133, 31y
Safina · #1126, 29y
Safira · #2674, 18y

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.

Boris · #374, 48y
Juliana · #366, 48y
Abdulrahman · #357, 45y
Rania · #349, 42y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Jardar · #353, 32y
Ole-Jørgen · #347, 24y
Sigvart · #343, 14y
Per-Erik · #338, 21y

Safia was ranked #381 in Norway · Girls in 2019. 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.

Safia 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 Safia without appearing here.

Safia moved ahead of

Nicola Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1282 and #1282 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #832 and #2689.
Anita Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1282 and #1215 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #832 and #2063.
Kelly Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1282 and #1215 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #832 and #1774.
Ashleigh Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1282 and #1142 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #832 and #1469.

Moved ahead of Safia

Rita Compare
In 2023 they stood at #832 and #851 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1262 and #625.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #955 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #992 and #460.
Frida Compare
In 2023 they stood at #832 and #851 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1262 and #811.
Sophie Compare
In 1985 they stood at #633 and #637 in Norway · Girls; by 1986 that had become #670 and #242.

Moved the opposite way to Safia

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Safia went from #594 to #1262 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Safia went from #594 to #1262 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Safia went from #594 to #1262 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Safia went from #594 to #1262 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Safia

Janne Compare
Between 1948 and 2017 in Norway · Girls, Safia went from #382 to #547 and Janne from #177 to #490.
Sissel Compare
Between 1948 and 2014 in Norway · Girls, Safia went from #382 to #574 and Sissel from #29 to #501.
Mette Compare
Between 1948 and 2010 in Norway · Girls, Safia went from #382 to #609 and Mette from #58 to #602.
Bente Compare
Between 1948 and 1995 in Norway · Girls, Safia went from #382 to #651 and Bente from #39 to #206.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
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 1948 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #381 in Norway in 2019. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Safia

Safia at a glance

What stands out in Safia's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Safia across 3 official records

Safia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Safia appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Safia

Safia and the names beside it

Safia moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Safia

Moved the opposite way to Safia

Moved the same way as Safia

Safia at a glance

What stands out in Safia's record

Safia across 3 official records

Safia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Safia appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Safia

Safia and the names beside it

Safia moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Safia

Moved the opposite way to Safia

Moved the same way as Safia