Safoora
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- sa-FOO-ra
- Origin
- Hebrew
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Safoora is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “bird”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Safoora mean?
Hebrew: Arabic and Urdu form of Zipporah
“bird”
Arabic form of Zipporah, the wife of Moses, who appears unnamed in the Quran.
Is Safoora a girl's or a boy's name?
Safoora 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 Safoora 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 59% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Safoora, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 8 girls.
Half of all the girls named Safoora in the UK since 1996 were born between 2009 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Safoora in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 6 | #3,697 |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 6 | #3,738 |
| 2018 | 7 | #3,344 |
| 2017 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 8 | #3,031 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 5 | #4,244 |
| 2010 | 1 | #7,520 |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 5 | #4,065 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 5 | #3,543 |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 3 | #4,284 |
Names like Safoora
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Khadija, Amira, Aaliyah, Abeeha, Safiya, Hafsa, Hiba, Zainab, Hawa, Sumayyah, Rahma
Names related to Safoora
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
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, “Safoora: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/safoora, updated 20 October 2026.