Safah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SAH-fa
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,642 for girls
Safah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “purity, clarity”. In 2025 it ranked 1,642nd for girls in the UK (19 babies).
What does Safah 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 Safah a girl's or a boy's name?
Safah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 19 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Safah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,642nd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 19 about 1 in 15,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 6% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 19 girls in the UK were named Safah, making it the 1,642nd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,046th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 46 girls.
Half of all the girls named Safah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2005 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 466 girls in the UK were given Safah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #138, up from #1,642 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,584th in England and Wales.
Safah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #1,642 |
| 2024 | 13 | #2,175 |
| 2023 | 19 | #1,666 |
| 2022 | 14 | #2,052 |
| 2021 | 13 | #2,202 |
| 2020 | 14 | #2,046 |
| 2019 | 20 | #1,599 |
| 2018 | 14 | #2,088 |
| 2017 | 20 | #1,647 |
| 2016 | 18 | #1,781 |
| 2015 | 18 | #1,739 |
| 2014 | 31 | #1,189 |
| 2013 | 22 | #1,505 |
| 2012 | 30 | #1,205 |
| 2011 | 25 | #1,335 |
| 2010 | 33 | #1,080 |
| 2009 | 44 | #844 |
| 2008 | 34 | #1,002 |
| 2007 | 46 | #780 |
| 2006 | 37 | #868 |
| 2005 | 39 | #793 |
| 2004 | 40 | #759 |
| 2003 | 27 | #965 |
| 2002 | 29 | #884 |
| 2001 | 22 | #1,042 |
| 2000 | 11 | #1,689 |
| 1999 | 18 | #1,194 |
| 1998 | 8 | #2,110 |
| 1997 | 10 | #1,780 |
| 1996 | 5 | #2,815 |
Names like Safah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Sumayyah, Farah, Zainab, Summer, Hibah, Samah, Safiya, Umaymah, Aaminah, Izzah, Umamah
Other spellings of Safah
Names related to Safah
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) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Safah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/safah, updated 20 October 2026.