Forename Safiyya

Across the world, Safiyya (صفية , Сафия , Safiyya ) is a common feminine given name. The first name Safiyya is habitual in Sudan, where it is quite a rare predominantly female, but scarcely masculine name, Kyrgyzstan, where it is quite a rare feminine name, and Libya. Measured by absolute frequency, it most frequently occurs in Russia, Sudan, and Nigeria. Much less frequently, Safiyya is the last name as well as the forename.

Translations, transliterations and names similar to the name Safiyya

name Сафийя, name Сафиййа, name صفية, name Safiyya, name Сафиыя, name Сафия

VARIANT	COUNTRY
صفية	Egypt, Sudan, Iraq, Yemen, Algeria
Сафия	Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Bulgaria
Safiyya	Nigeria, South Africa, Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka
Сафийя	Russia, Kazakhstan

First names said to be same

Сафиййа, and Сафиыя

Notable namesakes

	safiyya bint khalid al-bahiliyya Arabic poet
	safiyya amira shaikh British woman convicted of terrorism offences
	safiyya d gassman researcher (ORCID 0000-0002-9280-174X)
	safiyya sedick researcher, ZA
	safiyya bint shayba