girls:
178 births since 1971
#5538 (3rd percentile)
overall:
178 births since 1971
#7561 (2nd percentile)
The name Safiyya is the #7,561 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 178 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 2.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,538 (3.1% percentile) for all time with 178 births since 1971.
Safiyya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (first recorded for girls in 1971). Birth data for Safiyya is available in 18 out of the 53 years between 1971 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Safiyya reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #932) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Safiyya ranks #937 for girls (1.1% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 87.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Safiyya".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Safiyya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.8% confident that Safiyya is pronounced as sah-FEE-yuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is suh-FEE-yuh, at 33.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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