Saffa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SAH-fa
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,856 for girls
Saffa is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “purity, clarity”. In 2025 it ranked 2,856th for girls in the UK (9 babies).
What does Saffa mean?
Arabic: spelling of Safa
“purity, clarity”
Arabic for purity; Safa is also one of the two hills in Mecca between which pilgrims walk during Hajj and Umrah.
Meaning borrowed from Safa.
Is Saffa a girl's or a boy's name?
Saffa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Saffa in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #2,856among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9about 1 in 31,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 20% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the UK were named Saffa, making it the 2,856th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2004, with 26 girls.
Half of all the girls named Saffa 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 Saffa or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #138, up from #2,856 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,786th in England and Wales.
Saffa in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #2,856 |
| 2024 | 5 | #4,253 |
| 2023 | 10 | #2,640 |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 8 | #3,082 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 9 | #2,792 |
| 2018 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 2017 | 17 | #1,833 |
| 2016 | 10 | #2,692 |
| 2015 | 10 | #2,629 |
| 2014 | 12 | #2,320 |
| 2013 | 20 | #1,617 |
| 2012 | 23 | #1,474 |
| 2011 | 14 | #2,032 |
| 2010 | 16 | #1,829 |
| 2009 | 16 | #1,763 |
| 2008 | 10 | #2,454 |
| 2007 | 20 | #1,421 |
| 2006 | 20 | #1,364 |
| 2005 | 19 | #1,332 |
| 2004 | 26 | #1,027 |
| 2003 | 14 | #1,564 |
| 2002 | 15 | #1,399 |
| 2001 | 10 | #1,832 |
| 2000 | 5 | #2,907 |
| 1999 | 3 | #4,041 |
| 1998 | 5 | #2,855 |
| 1997 | 5 | #2,896 |
Names like Saffa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zainab Hafsa Aaliyah Safaa Rahma Summer Hiba Safiya Sumayyah Saba Huda Salma
Other spellings of Saffa
Names related to Saffa
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, “Saffa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/saffa, updated 20 October 2026.