girls:
73 births since 2012
#5643 (1st percentile)
boys:
172 births since 2000
#4414 (4th percentile)
overall:
245 births since 2000
#7494 (3rd percentile)
The name Safi is the #7,494 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 245 recorded births since 2000. This represents the 3.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,414 (3.7% percentile) for all time with 172 births since 2000. For girls, it ranks #5,643 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 73 births since 2012.
Safi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2000 (2000 for boys and 2012 for girls). Birth data for Safi is available in 22 out of the 24 years between 2000 and 2023 (20 years for boys and 9 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Safi has been given predominantly to boys, with 70.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 40.7% of babies named Safi were boys.
For boys, Safi reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #892) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Safi ranks #905 for boys (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 79.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Safi reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #936) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Safi is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #936 (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Safi".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Safi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.7% confident that Safi is pronounced as SAH-fee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is suh-FEE, at 33.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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