How Many People Are Named Safiyah?
people named Safiyah are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 431,546 people in the US has this name
Based on 799 babies named Safiyah in Social Security records from 1985 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
47 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Safiyah in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Safiyah alive today is about 13 years old, and 92% are under 30. Half of them were between 5 and 21 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Safiyah first appears in the records in 1985 and was given most often in 2023, to 47 babies. In 2025, 30 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1985 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Safiyah has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #3,418, in 2023. In 2025 it ranked #4,647.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #4,647 |
| Best rank | #3,418 (2023) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #4,943 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Safiyah alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Safiyah were born in New York than in any other state: about 71 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Safiyah was given about 8.9 times as often in New York.
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