Safeeya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- sa-FEE-ya
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Safeeya is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “pure, chosen”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Safeeya mean?
Arabic: spelling of Safiyya
“pure, chosen”
Safiyya bint Huyayy was one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad.
Is Safeeya a girl's or a boy's name?
Safeeya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Safeeya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 42% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Safeeya, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2017, with 7 girls.
In 2025, 274 girls in the UK were given Safeeya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #213, up from #5,990 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Safeeya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 2017 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
Names like Safeeya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Abeeha, Nusaybah, Safaa, Ayah, Khadija, Ruqayyah, Sumayyah, Hiba, Zainab, Aaliyah, Amira
Other spellings of Safeeya
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
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, “Safeeya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/safeeya, updated 20 October 2026.