Safiyah

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Safiyah: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #739 in 2006, and it stood at #869 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#739highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

England and Wales · Girls

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1112
1997	#1543
1998	#1211
1999	#1018
2000	#1195
2001	#853
2002	#1372
2003	#909
2004	#1043
2005	#890
2006	#739
2007	#1160
2008	#972
2009	#879
2010	#988
2011	#877
2012	#934
2013	#802
2014	#779
2015	#1139
2016	#1031
2017	#1063
2018	#1059
2019	#936
2020	#807
2021	#957
2022	#1142
2023	#794
2024	#869

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.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1112 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: #739 among girls in England and Wales, in 2006 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #869 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Safiyah 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 Safiyah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	64	4 of 10	16
2000s	274	10 of 10	27
2010s	380	10 of 10	38
2020sbusiest	197	5 of 10	39

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 39 births a year.

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

Safiyah appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #739 in England and Wales in 2006.

Safiyah'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	#869	42	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#794	45	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1142	29	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#957	36	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#807	45	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#936	38	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1059	33	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1063	33	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1031	34	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1139	30	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#779	50	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#802	48	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#934	39	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#877	41	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#988	34	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#879	38	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#972	32	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1160	24	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#739	42	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#890	31	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1043	23	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#909	27	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1372	14	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#853	27	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1195	16	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1018	20	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1211	16	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1543	11	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1112	17	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #739, first reached in 2006.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 50 births, registered in England and Wales in 2014.

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.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
29 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#869position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
50births registered in its largest year, 201450 to 99 births →

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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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Gruffydd · #740, 29y
Ishaaq · #740, 27y
Kamari · #738, 24y
Amba · #736, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Giorgio · #738, 30y
Gruffydd · #740, 29y
Ishaaq · #740, 27y
Lulu · #738, 29y

Safiyah was ranked #739 in England and Wales · Girls in 2006. 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.

Safiyah 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 Safiyah without appearing here.

Safiyah moved ahead of

Yvonne Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1195 and #1095 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #853 and #2023.
Elaine Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1142 and #1081 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #794 and #1705.
Christine Compare
In 2022 they stood at #1142 and #1081 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #794 and #1640.
Suzanne Compare
In 2005 they stood at #890 and #745 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #739 and #1585.

Moved ahead of Safiyah

Beau Compare
In 2001 they stood at #853 and #1107 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1372 and #809.
Olive Compare
In 2006 they stood at #739 and #816 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #1160 and #623.
Aurora Compare
In 2006 they stood at #739 and #796 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #1160 and #645.
Astrid Compare
In 2006 they stood at #739 and #928 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #1160 and #693.

Moved the same way as Safiyah

Blake Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Safiyah went from #1543 to #869 and Blake from #3824 to #432.
Ezra Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Safiyah went from #1543 to #869 and Ezra from #3824 to #1302.

What's not yet available

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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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #739 in England and Wales in 2006. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Safiyah

Safiyah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Safiyah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Safiyah appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Safiyah at a glance

Safiyah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Safiyah 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 Safiyah

Safiyah and the names beside it

Safiyah moved ahead of

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