Safwaan
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- saf-WAAN
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,747 for boys
Safwaan is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “smooth rock”. In 2025 it ranked 3,747th for boys in the UK (5 babies).
What does Safwaan mean?
Arabic: spelling of Safwan
“smooth rock”
Arabic for a smooth rock, a word used in one of the parables of the Quran.
Meaning borrowed from Safwan.
Is Safwaan a girl's or a boy's name?
Safwaan is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Safwaan in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,747th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 60,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 43% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the UK were named Safwaan, making it the 3,747th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,803rd. Its busiest year was 2003, with 18 boys.
Half of all the boys named Safwaan in the UK since 1996 were born between 2003 and 2016. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier boys aren't counted.
In 2025, 46 boys in the UK were given Safwaan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #715, up from #3,747 for this spelling alone.
- Safwan 41
- Safwaan 5
Among boys in 2025, it was 3,656th in England and Wales.
Safwaan in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #3,747 |
| 2024 | 11 | #2,149 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,335 |
| 2022 | 8 | #2,678 |
| 2021 | 9 | #2,434 |
| 2020 | 3 | #4,803 |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,126 |
| 2018 | 7 | #2,823 |
| 2017 | 10 | #2,306 |
| 2016 | 18 | #1,512 |
| 2015 | 7 | #2,855 |
| 2014 | 12 | #1,929 |
| 2013 | 12 | #1,901 |
| 2012 | 7 | #2,849 |
| 2011 | 4 | #3,986 |
| 2010 | 9 | #2,306 |
| 2009 | 13 | #1,760 |
| 2008 | 9 | #2,212 |
| 2007 | 16 | #1,458 |
| 2006 | 9 | #1,995 |
| 2005 | 11 | #1,701 |
| 2004 | 12 | #1,494 |
| 2003 | 18 | #1,081 |
| 2002 | 14 | #1,193 |
| 2001 | 7 | #1,833 |
| 2000 | 12 | #1,235 |
| 1999 | 3 | #3,043 |
| 1998 | 7 | #1,727 |
| 1997 | 13 | #1,111 |
| 1996 | 9 | #1,394 |
Names like Safwaan
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hamza, Saif, Fahad, Ahmed, Suhaib, Saeed, Samir, Zaydaan, Saim, Hassan, Salim, Sabir
Other spellings of Safwaan
Names related to Safwaan
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
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, “Safwaan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/safwaan, updated 20 October 2026.