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Lovely! I would think of it as a lighter Sofia, though it has its own character. Safiya is just so effortlessly pretty!
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Also Azerbaijani: https://www.behindthename.com/name/safiya/top/azerbaijan
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Also Russian: https://www.behindthename.com/name/safiya/top/russia-moscow
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Supposedly, Bin Laden had a daughter with this name. And it was also the name of Gaddafi’s wife and granddaughter (from his daughter, Ayesha).
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Safiya Zaghloul (née Fahmy; Arabic: صفية زغلول; 1878–12 January 1946) was an Egyptian political activist. In 1919, she became a central figure of the Wafd Party, and her home a center for the party. She organized a demonstration of 500 women. After the death of her spouse in 1927, Zaghloul was central in the appointment of a new party leader. In fact, she was the leader of the Women's Wafd.
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Safiya Wazir (Dari: صفية وزیر; born 1991) is an Afghan-American community activist and politician. She is a Democratic member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. Wazir is the first former refugee to serve in the New Hampshire State House.
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Safiya al Bahlani (born 1986) is an Omani artist, graphic designer, disability rights activist, and motivational speaker. In 2018 Al Bahlani was selected to create visual designs and branding for Al Mouj Muscat’s environmentally-responsible transportation buggies.
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Better than Sofia or any of those other ones.
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I actually really like this name but it just makes me think of Safiya Nygard. Not that she is bad or anything, she’s just the only other person I’ve heard of with this name so I wouldn’t use it.
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"Hello, friends, and welcome to another video." -Safiya Nygaard, YouTuber.
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Safiya Nygaard is a famous Youtube star. She worked as a video producer for Buzzfeed from April 2015 to late January 2017, and worked on the show Ladylike from October 2015 until she left the company. Now, Safiya has her own YouTube channel where most of her videos consist of fashion videos.
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The name Safiya was given to 31 girls born in the US in 2016.
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I know someone who pronounces this like so-FEE-ə, but with a very slight "a" sound in the first syllable.
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This is a lovely name and one I probably never would have heard of had I not seen it on this site one day. I prefer this spelling to Safiyyah, it's easier on the eyes and so much prettier.
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The Turkish form of this name is Safiye. [noted -ed]
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Beautiful name! This is my main character in a story. Simply wonderfly perfect.
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