Safiatou
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- sah-fee-AH-too
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Safiatou is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “pure”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Safiatou mean?
Arabic: West African form of Safiyya
“pure”
West African form of Safiyya, the name of one of the Prophet Muhammad's wives.
Is Safiatou a girl's or a boy's name?
Safiatou is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Safiatou in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,360th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Safiatou, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. It first appears in the records in 1998.
2025 had the most girls named Safiatou of any year since it first appeared, in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Safiatou in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Safiatou in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,801 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,401 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
Names like Safiatou
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Aaliyah, Samiyah, Zainab, Zaniyah, Fatou, Zahara, Sariyah, Safia, Zaliyah, Nusaybah, Hadassah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from 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, “Safiatou: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/safiatou, updated 20 October 2026.