Given name · also Turkish
Safet
Safet is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in Albanian and Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Safet comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish صفوت (saffet, safvet), from Arabic صَفْوَة.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Safet through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1975
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1975. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 527 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Safet
- Safet SušićBosnian footballerborn 1955
- Safet ZecBosnian painter (born 1943)
- Safet IsovićBosnian-Herzegovinian Yugoslavian singer-politician (1936–2007)
- Safet NadarevićBosnia and Herzegovina footballerborn 1980
- Safet BerishaAlbanian footballer (1949-2016)
- Safet ButkaAlbanian politician1901–1943
- Safet JahičSlovenian association football playerborn 1987
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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