Surname Safiya

Family name Safiya (Safiya , صفية , Сафия ) , all around the world, is a common cognomen. The cognomen Safiya is habitual in Nigeria, where it is quite a common surname, Ethiopia, where it is quite a rare surname, and Syria. Measured by absolute frequency, the name is most common in Nigeria, Ethiopia, and India. More frequently, Safiya is the forename as well as the last name.

Translations, transliterations and names similar to the name Safiya

VARIANT	COUNTRY
Safiya	Somalia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan
صفية	Yemen, Sudan, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq
Сафия	Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria
Зафия	Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia

Last names said to be same

Safia, Safıya, Sàfiya, Сафийа, Сафиыа, Сафиья, Сафія, צאפיה, صفیه, and สะฝิยะ

Characteristic forenames

Ali, Mondal, Sayyed, Shaikh, Ansari, Basiru, Khatun, Pathan, Haruna, Hassan, Habibu, Yakubu, Yahaya, Mohamed, Sultana, Khatoon, Ibrahim, Mohammad, Mohammed, Muhammad, Muhammed, Suleiman, Mallik, Abubakar, Mandal, Yusuf, Musa, Sani, Sekh, Bano, Bibi, Khan, Devi, Umar, Molla, Shaik, Aliyu, Aminu, Adamu, Ahmad, Ahmed, Bagum, Bello, Beevi, Begam, Begum, Idris, Usman, and Abdullahi