Safîr

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Safîr is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French saphir, from Latin sapphirus.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 186K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 489K
  • FIFinland1 in 557K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

55 people

Sources
159 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 186K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Safir in NL Netherlands.

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)

Derivation of Safîr: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Safîr
  1. Frenchsaphir(measured from records)
  2. Latinsapphirus(measured from records)

Borrowed from French saphir, from Latin sapphirus.

Sources 7

  • Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Wiktionary
  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Safîr 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.

Where Safîr is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden551 in 186K55—3
NL Netherlands241 in 720K24Safir5
DK Denmark121 in 489K11—1
FI Finland101 in 557K30——
DZ Algeria≈7 est.≈1 in 6.5Mlisted—2
GY Guyana11 in 750K1—1

55 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Safîr under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Safîr mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from French saphir, from Latin sapphirus. Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and 5 other sources.
Is Safîr a male or female name?
Safîr is a male 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 Safîr have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 55 people named Safîr, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Safîr most common?
Safîr is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 186 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Safîr?
In Sweden, the national register counted 55 people named Safîr, about 1 in 186 thousand residents.

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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, “Safîr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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