Safa
Featured in baby name books
Safa is an Arabic name meaning “purity” or “innocent.”
Sources: 10,000 Baby Names, Baby Names Made Easy
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Usage of Safa in different languages / cultures
The list below was created by gathering names from various sources for different languages, and then matching Safa against each list of names.
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Bulgarian
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Catalan
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Chinese
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Cornish
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Croatian
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Czech
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Danish
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Dutch
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English
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French
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Georgian
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German
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Greek
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Hawaiian
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Indonesian
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Irish
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Italian
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Japanese
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Khmer
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Latin
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Persian
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Polish
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Portuguese
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Romanian
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Russian
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Scottish
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Spanish
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Swedish
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Telugu
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Vietnamese
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Note: In some cases it is possible for the check mark to be missing even if Safa is used in a particular country, as almost no source name list has 100% coverage.
Safa in official name statistics
United States
In 2025, 249 girls were named Safa, making it the #1004 girls' name in the US. Since 1978, 2,939 girls have been named Safa, with the most (249) in 2025. It is most common, relative to births, in Minnesota, Maryland and New York.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880–2025. Names given to fewer than 5 babies in a year are not listed.
Other countries
Counts are babies born that year, or living people for "all ages" rows, as published by each country's statistics office or population register.
Towns named Safa
There are 277 towns and villages with Safa in their name, in 26 countries.
🇾🇪 Yemen 190🇮🇷 Iran 16🇸🇾 Syria 15🇴🇲 Oman 8🇦🇫 Afghanistan 6🇮🇶 Iraq 5🇸🇩 Sudan 5🇮🇳 India 4
| Name | Where | Population | |
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| Safa-Manois | Bas-Sassandra District, 🇨🇮 Ivory Coast | 1,484 | Map |
| Umm Şafā | West Bank, 🇵🇸 Palestinian Territory | 604 | Map |
| Aş Şafa | White Nile, 🇸🇩 Sudan | – | Map |
| Aş Şafa | White Nile, 🇸🇩 Sudan | – | Map |
| Aş Şafa | Al Jazirah, 🇸🇩 Sudan | – | Map |
| Aş Şafa | Al Jazirah, 🇸🇩 Sudan | – | Map |
| Aş Şafa’ | Ibb Governorate, 🇾🇪 Yemen | – | Map |
| Aş Şafá | Ibb Governorate, 🇾🇪 Yemen | – | Map |
| Aş Şafá | Ta‘izz, 🇾🇪 Yemen | – | Map |
| Aş Şafá | Ta‘izz, 🇾🇪 Yemen | – | Map |
Source: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Maps: OpenStreetMap.
Celebrities named Safa
Based on celebrities listed on Wikipedia, filtered to only those with the first name Safa.
Safa Khulusi
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