Saffie
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SAF-ee
- Origin
- English
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,409 for girls
Saffie is a girls' name of English origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies).
What does Saffie mean?
English: pet form of Saffron or Sapphire
Saffy, short for Saffron, is Edina's sensible daughter in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.
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Is Saffie a girl's or a boy's name?
Saffie is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Saffie in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,409th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 40,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 44% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Saffie, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,159th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 17 girls.
2025 had fewer girls named Saffie than any year since 2016.
Half of all the girls named Saffie in the UK since 1996 were born between 2016 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 10 girls in the UK were given Saffie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,226, up from #3,409 for this spelling alone.
- Saffie 7
- Saffy 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,332nd in England and Wales.
Saffie in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #3,409 |
| 2024 | 10 | #2,644 |
| 2023 | 8 | #3,098 |
| 2022 | 12 | #2,277 |
| 2021 | 11 | #2,478 |
| 2020 | 13 | #2,159 |
| 2019 | 15 | #1,958 |
| 2018 | 17 | #1,810 |
| 2017 | 15 | #2,011 |
| 2016 | 7 | #3,389 |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 7 | #3,201 |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 7 | #2,436 |
Names like Saffie
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Ayah, Zainab, Ayra, Ayla, Hafsa, Summer, Hiba, Nusaybah, Safaa, Hallie, Amira
Names related to Saffie
Safia, Saffiyah, Saffiya, Saffa, Saffi, Safi, Saffia, Saffah
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hazel
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, “Saffie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/saffie, updated 20 October 2026.