Safaa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- sa-FAA
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #636 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #5,098 for girls
Safaa is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “purity, clarity”. In 2025 it ranked 636th for girls in the UK (65 babies) and 5,098th for girls in the US (25 babies).
What does Safaa mean?
Arabic: spelling of Safa
“purity, clarity”
A spelling of Safa, Arabic for purity and the name of a hill in Mecca visited by pilgrims.
Is Safaa a girl's or a boy's name?
Safaa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 65 girls in the UK and 25 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Safaa in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 636th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 65 about 1 in 4,300 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 6% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 65 girls in the UK were named Safaa, making it the 636th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 615th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 121 girls.
Half of all the girls named Safaa in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 596th in England and Wales.
Safaa in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #636 |
| 2024 | 72 | #587 |
| 2023 | 70 | #594 |
| 2022 | 59 | #689 |
| 2021 | 67 | #625 |
| 2020 | 68 | #615 |
| 2019 | 63 | #669 |
| 2018 | 89 | #529 |
| 2017 | 82 | #577 |
| 2016 | 121 | #419 |
| 2015 | 118 | #426 |
| 2014 | 120 | #410 |
| 2013 | 106 | #439 |
| 2012 | 105 | #469 |
| 2011 | 99 | #474 |
| 2010 | 100 | #470 |
| 2009 | 91 | #495 |
| 2008 | 72 | #582 |
| 2007 | 41 | #848 |
| 2006 | 35 | #915 |
| 2005 | 22 | #1,215 |
| 2004 | 29 | #967 |
| 2003 | 11 | #1,831 |
| 2002 | 16 | #1,333 |
| 2001 | 10 | #1,832 |
| 2000 | 21 | #1,073 |
| 1999 | 15 | #1,347 |
| 1998 | 15 | #1,350 |
| 1997 | 6 | #2,552 |
| 1996 | 7 | #2,201 |
How popular is Safaa in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,098th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 25 about 1 in 64,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 8% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 25 girls in the US were named Safaa, making it the 5,098th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,846th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 34 girls. It first appears in the records in 1990.
2025 had more girls named Safaa than any year since 2018.
Half of all the girls named Safaa in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Safaa in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,098 |
| 2024 | 16 | #6,928 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,245 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,635 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,569 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,846 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,304 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,886 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,809 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,249 |
| 2015 | 27 | #4,979 |
| 2014 | 21 | #5,991 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,642 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,338 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,725 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,901 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,375 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,347 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,814 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,878 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,240 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,189 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,152 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,338 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,132 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,403 |
Names like Safaa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zainab, Hafsa, Rahma, Safiya, Hiba, Sumayyah, Ayah, Abeeha, Aaliyah, Nusaybah, Ruqayyah, Huda
Names related to Safaa
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Safaa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/safaa, updated 20 October 2026.