Safî
surname · Latin script
Safî is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country, where it is the 66th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From French Safi, from Arabic آسَفِي (ʔāsafī). Safî is also written สาฟ in Thai.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 130few records(inferred from the name graph)
- JOJordan≈1 in 2.1Kfew records
- NONorway1 in 4.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Safî itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 242 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 129 (inferred from the name graph)
≈330,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Safî in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled Safi in IN India, MA Morocco, PK Pakistan and 4 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)- 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 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Safî is found
(measured from records)Safî 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #66 | ≈330,000 est. | ≈1 in 129 | — | Safi | 21 |
| PK Pakistan | #996 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Safi | 57 |
| IN India | — | 22,044 | 1 in 60K | 22K | Safi | 79 |
| BD Bangladesh | #408 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Safi | 43 |
| DZ Algeria | #268 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Safi | 26 |
| MA Morocco | #201 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Safi | 40 |
| JO Jordan | #639 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Safi | 47 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,162 | 1 in 4.7K | 1.2K | — | 16 |
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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 Safî 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Safî?
- Mondonomo estimates about 330 thousand people named Safî in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled safi. After it come Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Algeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Safî?
- In India, the national register counted 22,044 people named Safî, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
- How common is Safî compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Safî is the 66th most common surname of 11,723 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saf%C3%AEThe 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, “Safî” — the 66th most common surname in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.