Safiya is a distinctive choice, ranked #455 in 2025. Your child is likely to be the only Safiya in their class.
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UK Rank 2025
#455
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About the Name Safiya
Safiya is climbing rapidly up the charts, having climbed 97 places in just five years. Its best recorded rank was #444 in 2009 — and current momentum suggests it could challenge that mark again. The name has been a consistent presence in UK records since 1996.
Safiya is fairly common in the UK, so your child is very likely to be the only Safiya in their class.
⭐ Famous People Named Safiya
Hussam Abu Safiya — Hussam Idris Abu Safiya (Arabic: حسام إدريس أبو صفية, romanized: Ḥusām Idrīs Abū Ṣafīyah; born 21 November 1973) is a Palestinian paediatrician and neonatologist who served as the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Gaza Strip from February 2024 until its…
Safiya Sinclair — Safiya Sinclair is a Jamaican poet and memoirist.
Safiya Hussaini — Safiya Hussaini Tungar Tudu is a Nigerian woman condemned to death for adultery in 2002.
Biographical summaries are shortened from Wikipedia and are used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; those summaries remain available under that same licence.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Safiya
Unlikely. With around 88 UK babies named Safiya per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Safiya in their class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Safiya is rising: up 123 places since 2020, to #455 in 2025. Its best recorded position was #444 in 2009.
Safiya is a distinctive choice sitting outside the mainstream UK top names. Parents choosing less common names often find their children appreciate the individuality as they grow up, rarely needing to add an initial to distinguish themselves.
Notable people named Safiya include: Hussam Abu Safiya, Safiya Sinclair and Safiya Hussaini. Short summaries for each appear below.
Safiya does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice — your child is unlikely to encounter American Safiyas in the wild.
88
UK babies named Safiya (2025)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
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In a school of 600
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Rank change (last 5 years)
🏫 Who else is in the room?
In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Safiya
Almost certainly the only Safiya in the class
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UK Popularity (1996–2025)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
No US data available for this name
✨ Similar names to Safiya
Names with a similar style — each with their own classroom story
Hussam Idris Abu Safiya (Arabic: حسام إدريس أبو صفية, romanized: Ḥusām Idrīs Abū Ṣafīyah; born 21 November 1973) is a Palestinian paediatrician and neonatologist who served as the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Gaza Strip from February 2024 until its evacuation by the Israeli military in December 2024.