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Safa - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Safa
 
 


The girl name Safa [ syll. sa-fa, saf-a ] is pronounced as SahFah KEY. Safa is primarily used in Arabic and Iranian, and it is of Arabic origin. Derived literally from the element 'safa' which has the meaning pure.

Safa is uncommon as a baby name for girls. It is not in the top 1000 names.

Baby names that sound like Safa include the Czech, Dutch, German, and Scandinavian Sofie, the English, French, and German Sophie, the English Sophy, the Finnish and Scandinavian Suvi, the German and Italian Sveva, the Arabic Safia, the Arabic and Swahili Safiya, the English Sib, the English Sibb, the Italian Sibella, the German, Italian, and Scandinavian Sofia, the Russian Sofiya, the Spanish Sofía, the English, German, Greek, Italian, and Russian Sophia, and the Scandinavian Svea.

KEY: approx English pronunciation for Safa: S as in "sea (S.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; F as in "fee (F.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"


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Meaning of Safa