Safira
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- sa-FEER-a
- Origin
- Aramaic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,856 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #4,545 for girls
Safira is a girls' name of Aramaic origin, meaning “beautiful”. In 2025 it ranked 2,856th for girls in the UK (9 babies) and 4,545th for girls in the US (30 babies).
What does Safira mean?
Aramaic: spelling of Saphira, itself a spelling of Sapphira
“beautiful”
Saphira is the blue dragon in Christopher Paolini's Eragon; Sapphira appears in the biblical Book of Acts.
Meaning borrowed from Saphira.
Is Safira a girl's or a boy's name?
Safira is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the UK and 30 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Safira in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,856th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 31,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 12% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the UK were named Safira, making it the 2,856th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 9 girls.
2025 had more girls named Safira than any year since 2018.
Half of all the girls named Safira in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 19 girls in the UK were given Safira or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,417, up from #2,856 for this spelling alone.
- Safira 9
- Saphira 6
- Safirah 4
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,786th in England and Wales.
Safira in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #2,856 |
| 2024 | 6 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 9 | #2,825 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 6 | #3,777 |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 7 | #3,338 |
| 2012 | 1 | #7,881 |
| 2011 | 3 | #6,007 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
| 2009 | 4 | #4,795 |
| 2008 | 4 | #4,742 |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 5 | #3,356 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #2,928 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 4 | #3,374 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 3 | #3,991 |
How popular is Safira in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,545th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 30 about 1 in 54,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 77% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 30 girls in the US were named Safira, making it the 4,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. It first appears in the records in 1984.
2025 had the most girls named Safira of any year since it first appeared, in 1984.
Half of all the girls named Safira in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 144 girls in the US were given Safira or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,312, up from #4,545 for this spelling alone.
- Saphira 114
- Safira 30
Safira in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,545 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,635 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,409 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,612 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,527 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,390 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,205 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,146 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,450 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,472 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,814 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,797 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,165 |
Names like Safira
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Abeeha, Hafsa, Sumayyah, Nusaybah, Rahma, Safaa, Hiba, Zainab, Aaliyah, Rumaysa, Ruqayyah
Other spellings of Safira
Names related to Safira
More Aramaic names
Thomas, Tommy, Martha, Barnaby, Barney, Tabitha, Tomas, Tadeo, Tom, Thaddeus, Tomos, Marta, Tommie, Tomi, Tommaso, Barnabas
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Safira: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/safira, updated 20 October 2026.