Frequency: (190)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Muslim: from a personal name based on Arabic ṣafī ‘honest friend’, ‘intercessor’, from ṣaffā ‘to make pure’.
GIVEN NAMES: Muslim 73%. Mohammad (7), Omar (5), Mohammed (4), Mohamed (3), Ehsan (2), Masoud (2), Safi (2), Samer (2), Wafa (2), Walid (2), Zahir (2), Abdul.
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