Sàfì
surname · Latin script
Sàfì is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From French Safi, from Arabic آسَفِي (ʔāsafī).
- NONorway1 in 4.7K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 9.7K
- SESweden1 in 10K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
22,044 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Safi in IN India, US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- FrenchSafi(measured from records)
- Arabicآسَفِيʔāsafī(measured from records)
From French Safi, from Arabic آسَفِي (ʔāsafī).
Cited for this meaning 7
- A Handbook of African Names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- The African book of names
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sàfì counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 22,044 | 1 in 60K | 22K | Safi | 33 |
| US United States | 1,626 | 1 in 205K | 3.7K | Safi | 34 |
| NO Norway | 1,162 | 1 in 4.7K | 1.2K | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 989 | 1 in 10K | 989 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 606 | 1 in 9.7K | 606 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 570 | 1 in 15K | 570 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | 212 | 1 in 26K | 212 | — | 1 |
22,044 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sàfì mean, and where does it come from?
- From French Safi, from Arabic آسَفِي (ʔāsafī). Recorded by A Handbook of African Names and Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Sàfì have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Sàfì, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled safi.
- Where is Sàfì most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sàfì is densest in Norway — about 1 in 4.7 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sàfì?
- In India, the national register counted 22,044 people named Sàfì, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A0f%C3%ACThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sàfì”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.