Safiya

Safiya (صفية) is an Arab name, meaning "pure." Alternative transliterations include Saffiyah, Safiyyah, Safie, Safia, Safija, Safya, Sophie, Safiyah, Safeia, etc.

Notable bearers of the name include:

Medieval

 * Safiyyah bint Abd al-Muttalib (late 560s–c. 640), Sahaba and a prominent person in Islamic history
 * Safiyya bint Huyayy (c. 610–c. 670), one of the wives of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
 * Safiyyah bint Abi al-As, daughter of Abu al-As ibn Umayyah
 * Safiye Sultan (wife of Murad III), Ottoman Valide sultan
 * Safiye Sultan (daughter of Mustafa II) (1696–1778), the daughter of Ottoman sultan Mustafa II

Modern

 * Safiya Zaghloul (1876–1946), Egyptian political activist
 * Safia Ahmed-jan (1941–2006), Afghan women's rights advocate and critic of the Taliban
 * Safia Tarzi, Afghan fashion designer.
 * Safia El Emari (born 1949), Egyptian actress
 * Sfia Bouarfa (born 1950), Moroccan-Belgian politician
 * Safiya Henderson-Holmes (1950–2001), African-American poet
 * Safia Farkash (born 1952), Libyan wife of Muammar Gaddafi
 * Safiya George, U.S. Virgin Islands nurse practitioner and academic administrator
 * Safia Abdi Haase (born 1959), Somali nurse and women's rights activist
 * Safia Middleton-Patel (born 2004), Welsh footballer
 * Safia Minney (born 1964), British social entrepreneur and author
 * Safiya Nygaard (born 1992), American YouTuber
 * Safia Taleb Ali al-Suhail (born 1965) Iraqi politician
 * Safia Shah (born 1966), British writer, editor and television news producer
 * Safiya Hussaini (born 1967), Nigerian condemned to death for adultery, later acquitted
 * Safia Abukar Hussein (born 1981), Somali sprinter
 * Safiya Songhai (born 1984), American film director
 * Safia Boukhima (born 1991) 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 Frankenstein
 * Safiya fon Hasstrell, a character from Susan Dennard’s Witchlands series