Safer
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: comparative form of safe: more safe
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sefa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Safer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 295K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 60K
- KWKuwait≈1 in 110K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 60K (inferred from the name graph)
≈720 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Safar, the second month of the lunar and Islamic calendar.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
How Safer is read(measured from records)
Safer is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English56%
comparative form of safe: more safe
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Morley, Canadian-born TV journalist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- French14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Safer in French.
- Turkish11%
Safar, the second month of the lunar and Islamic calendar.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Temiz yürekli, dürüst kimse.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Arabic6.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Safer in Arabic.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Safer 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 60K | listed | Safer | 19 |
| US United States | 407 | 1 in 817K | 466 | Safer | 19 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 295K | — | Safer | 21 |
| FR France | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 256K | 27 | — | 1 |
| EG Egypt | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 561K | — | Safer | 16 |
| TN Tunisia | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Safer | 5 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Safer | 10 |
| SI Slovenia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 246K | 6 | — | — |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; the dz-kaggle-names register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Safer is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Serbo-Croatian, Safar, the second month of the Islamic calendar.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, alternative form of saffron
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- John Saferb. 1922USAmerican artist (1922–2018)
- Morley Saferb. 1931CACanadian-American reporter and correspondent (1931-2016)
- Jeanne Saferb. 1947USAmerican psychotherapist
- Tolga Saferb. 1982GBactor
- İzzet Saferb. 1990TRTurkish athlete (born 1990)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 466 | #43,629 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 412 | #54,078 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 407 | #51,176 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 3 | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Safer come from?
- Safar, the second month of the lunar and Islamic calendar. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Safer?
- A machine transcription gives /sefa/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Safer mean?
- In English, comparative form of safe: more safe
- In which country does Safer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 720 people named Safer in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled safer.
- How common is the name Safer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 407 people named Safer in 2010, about 1 in 817 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saferThe 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, “Safer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.