Safwan

maleStatistical record

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

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

Safwan: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #432, reached in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#432highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1168
1997	#1010
1998	#1485
1999	#1281
2000	#1096
2001	#842
2002	#848
2003	#813
2004	#790
2005	#850
2006	#1127
2007	#1014
2008	#746
2009	#760
2010	#758
2011	#743
2012	#719
2013	#783
2014	#714
2015	#740
2016	#833
2017	#943
2018	#721
2019	#798
2020	#723
2021	#907
2022	#949
2023	#614
2024	#711

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 · Boys

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

In 2020: #723 among boys in England and Wales, #741 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1168 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2013–2025
Highest recorded position: #432 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025 (recorded 2013–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #432 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Safwan appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 926 births with the name.

Safwan 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.

Safwan'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 · Boys	#1168 (1996)	#614 (2023)	#711 (2024)	29 of 29	926 (1996–2024)	58 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#711 (2013)	#432 (2025)	#432 (2025)	4 of 13	17 (2013–2025)	8 (2025)

Safwan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Safwan in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	43	4 of 10	11
2000s	253	10 of 10	25
2010s	412	10 of 10	41
2020sbusiest	218	5 of 10	44

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 44 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2022 and 2023, when recorded births rose by 26, from 32 to 58.

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

Safwan 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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #432 in Republic of Ireland in 2025.

Safwan'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	male	#711	50	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#614	58	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#949	32	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#907	33	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#723	45	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#798	39	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#721	47	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#943	32	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#833	38	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#740	44	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#714	45	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#783	40	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#719	46	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#743	42	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#758	39	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#760	38	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#746	39	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1014	24	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1127	19	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#850	27	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#790	27	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#813	25	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#848	21	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#842	20	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1096	13	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1281	10	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1485	8	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1010	14	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1168	11	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#432	8	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#741	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#711	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #432, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 58 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2013, and 17 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.

Safura · #2925, 10y
Safwaan · #1011, 29y
Saga · #33, 28y
Sage · #298, 25y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Kenna · #431, 26y
Mairi · #431, 26y
Caris · #430, 26y
Daisy-May · #434, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Abram · #432, 18y
Aleigha · #432, 26y
Amarah · #432, 29y
Beatriz · #432, 29y

Safwan was ranked #432 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2025. 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.

Safwan 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 Safwan without appearing here.

Safwan moved ahead of

Kim Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1485 and #1367 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #1281 and #2943.
Graeme Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1281 and #1281 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #1096 and #2501.
Ashleigh Compare
In 2000 they stood at #1096 and #881 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2001 that had become #842 and #1595.
Shannon Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1168 and #1168 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #1010 and #1761.

Moved ahead of Safwan

Ollie Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1010 and #2022 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #1485 and #924.
Hudson Compare
In 2005 they stood at #850 and #982 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1127 and #885.
Mathias Compare
In 2016 they stood at #833 and #928 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #943 and #709.
Tadhg Compare
In 2018 they stood at #721 and #786 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #798 and #634.

Moved the opposite way to Safwan

Garry Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Safwan went from #1168 to #614 while Garry went from #573 to #4991.
Graeme Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Safwan went from #1168 to #614 while Graeme went from #755 to #4107.
Nicola Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Safwan went from #1168 to #614 while Nicola went from #2863 to #4107.

Moved the same way as Safwan

Arlo Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Safwan went from #1281 to #711 and Arlo from #2943 to #15.
Harper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Safwan went from #1281 to #711 and Harper from #2425 to #1402.
Kasper Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Safwan went from #1281 to #711 and Kasper from #2425 to #529.
Rune Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Safwan went from #1281 to #711 and Rune from #2943 to #1460.

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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #432 in Republic of Ireland in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Safwan

Safwan at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Safwan across 2 official records

Safwan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Popularity data

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Safwan at a glance

Safwan across 2 official records

Safwan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Safwan

Safwan and the names beside it

Safwan moved ahead of

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