Saffie
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A diminutive of the female given name Saffron (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/saffje/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Saffie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 15K(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 120K
- ARArgentina1 in 1.5M
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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈270 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Saffie
- Spanish:/saffje/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Malay:/saffiə/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A diminutive of the female given name Saffron.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Saffie is found
(measured from records)Saffie 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Saffie | 14 |
| CL Chile | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 123K | 1 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 100 | 1 in 3.3M | 100 | Saffie | 90 |
| GY Guyana | 49 | 1 in 15K | 49 | Saffie | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 31 | 1 in 1.5M | 31 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Saffie | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 790K | — | Saffie | 1 |
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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)Saffie is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, cigarette
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)- José Musalem Saffieb. 1924CLChilean politician (1924-2019)
- Jessica López Saffieb. 1956CLChilean politician
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Saffie mean, and where does it come from?
- A diminutive of the female given name Saffron. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Saffie?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /saffje/; in Malay /saffiə/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Saffie?
- Mondonomo estimates about 267 people named Saffie in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saffie. After it come Chile, United States, Guyana and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Saffie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Saffie is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though Malaysia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Saffie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 100 people named Saffie in 2010, about 1 in 3.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Saffie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saffieThe 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, “Saffie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.