Sáfia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sáfia is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 18K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 21K
- DKDenmark1 in 24K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
2,837 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Safia in US United States, ES Spain, BR Brazil and 1 more.
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)Safia är ett arabiskt namn som betyder ’förtrogen; lojal’.
Cited for this meaning 5
- African Names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sáfia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2,837 | 1 in 117K | 2.8K | Safia | 50 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,219 | 1 in 41K | 1.2K | Safia | 28 |
| SE Sweden | — | 582 | 1 in 18K | 582 | — | 3 |
| BR Brazil | — | 414 | 1 in 511K | 414 | Safia | 20 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 325 | 1 in 53K | 325 | — | 4 |
| NO Norway | — | 261 | 1 in 21K | 894 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 241 | 1 in 24K | 241 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 186 | 1 in 30K | 259 | — | 1 |
| MZ Mozambique | #763 | — | — | — | Safia | 6 |
2,837 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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
- Is Sáfia a male or female name?
- Sáfia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Sáfia have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Sáfia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled safia.
- Where is Sáfia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sáfia is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sáfia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,837 people named Sáfia in 2020, about 1 in 117 thousand residents.
- How common is Sáfia compared with other names?
- In Mozambique, Sáfia is the 763rd most common given name of 1,034 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A1fiaThe 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, “Sáfia” — the 763rd most common given name in Mozambique. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.