Safiya
Safiya is an Arab name, meaning "pure."
Alternative transliterations include Saffiyah, Safiyyah, Safie, Safia, Safija, Safya, Safiyah, Safeia, etc.
Notable bearers of the name include:
Medieval
- Safiyyah bint Abd al-Muttalib, Sahaba and a prominent person in Islamic history
- Safiyya bint Huyayy, one of the wives of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
- Safiyyah bint Abi al-As, daughter of Abu al-As ibn Umayyah
- Safiye Sultan, Ottoman Valide sultan
- Safiye Sultan , the daughter of Ottoman sultan Mustafa II
Modern
- Safiya Zaghloul, Egyptian political activist
- Safia Ahmed-jan, Afghan women's rights advocate and critic of the Taliban
- Safia Tarzi, Afghan fashion designer.
- Safia El Emari, Egyptian actress
- Sfia Bouarfa, Moroccan-Belgian politician
- Safiya Henderson-Holmes, African-American poet
- Safia Farkash, Libyan wife of Muammar Gaddafi
- Safiya George, U.S. Virgin Islands nurse practitioner and academic administrator
- Safia Abdi Haase, Somali nurse and women's rights activist
- Safia Middleton-Patel, Welsh footballer
- Safia Minney, British social entrepreneur and author
- Safiya Nygaard, American YouTuber
- Safia Taleb Ali al-Suhail Iraqi politician
- Safia Shah, British writer, editor and television news producer
- Safiya Hussaini, Nigerian condemned to death for adultery, later acquitted
- Safia Abukar Hussein, Somali sprinter
- Safiya Songhai, American film director
- Safia Boukhima Algerian volleyball player
- Siti Safiyah, Malaysian ten-pin bowler
- Safiya Abdel Rahman, Egyptian active in girl guiding and scouting
Fictional characters
- Safiyah Sohail, a DC comics character
- Safie, a character in Frankenstein
- Safiya fon Hasstrell, a character from Susan Dennard’s series
- Safiya Llewellyn-Fayyad, a character from Life is Strange: Double Exposure