The Safi surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,626 people carried this name — #17,367 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 181,800 people counted. That is up 69% from 964 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 2,466 people named Safi live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
707 people named Safi live in Switzerland.
They live in 23 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 129 people named Safi.
Most of them — 93 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 15 départements, most often Nord.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 88 people named Safi live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
1,515 people named Safi are counted in Sweden, Norway and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0 · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Safi,
with a public archive behind them.
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İbrahim Safi 1898–1983 · painter
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İbrahim Safi 1898–1983 · painter
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Muhammad Amin al-Safi al-Najafi 1902–1973 · poet
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Muhammad Amin al-Safi al-Najafi 1902–1973 · poet
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Muhammad Amin al-Safi al-Najafi 1902–1973 · poet
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Muhammad Amin al-Safi al-Najafi 1902–1973 · poet
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Safi.
- Saelens 286 · U.S. census
- Saenger 391 · U.S. census
- Saenz 33,787 · U.S. census
- Saez 3,745 · U.S. census
- Safar 764 · U.S. census
- Saffer 950 · U.S. census
- Safir 325 · U.S. census
- Sagan 1,193 · U.S. census
- Sage 11,207 · U.S. census
- Sager 10,541 · U.S. census
- Saget 308 · U.S. census
- Sagon 230 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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