Saheed
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Saheed is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is the 88th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- NGNigeria1 in 1.1K◐
- USUnited States1 in 728K
- GYGuyana1 in 13K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈544 ●
- Sources
- 132 ●
- 1 in 13K ◐
across 6 countries
88K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #88 | 64,245 | 82K rec. | — | — | Saheed | 102 |
| IN India | — | 775 | 480 rec. | — | 43 | Saheed | 35 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 684 | 411 rec. | — | — | Saheed | 65 |
| US United States | — | 457 | 3.1K rec. | 1 in 728K | 457 | Saheed | 132 |
| KE Kenya | — | 385 | 1 rec. | — | — | Saheed | 4 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 150 | 32 rec. | — | — | Saheed | 17 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 76 | 80 rec. | — | — | Saheed | 11 |
| AU Australia | — | 70 | 152 rec. | — | — | Saheed | 23 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | 67 | 94 rec. | — | — | Saheed | 19 |
| CA Canada | — | 62 | 115 rec. | — | 1 | Saheed | 26 |
| GY Guyana | — | 59 | 121 rec. | 1 in 13K | 59 | Saheed | 3 |
| DE Germany | — | 32 | 55 rec. | — | — | Saheed | 22 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English61K62%
- Swahili7.8K8%
- 6.1K6%
- Arabic5.6K6%
- Hindi5.3K5%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 60,740 | 62% |
| Swahili | 7,803 | 8% |
| 6,105 | 6% | |
| Arabic | 5,616 | 6% |
| Hindi | 5,253 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1989 | 7 |
| 1990 | 8 |
| 1991 | 7 |
| 1994 | 7 |
| 1995 | 5 |
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 1998 | 6 |
| 1999 | 9 |
| 2000 | 16 |
| 2001 | 6 |
| 2002 | 5 |
| 2003 | 6 |
| 2004 | 6 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2006 | 10 |
| 2007 | 6 |
| 2008 | 8 |
| 2011 | 6 |
| 2013 | 7 |
| 2015 | 5 |
| 2017 | 8 |
| 2018 | 12 |
| 2019 | 10 |
| 2020 | 7 |
| 2021 | 7 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 28 years between 1989–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Saheed Balogunb. 1967NGNigerian film actor
- Popoola Saheed Adekeye Lekanb. 1971NGMember, Kwara House of Assembly (7th Legislature) Commissioner for Sports.
- Saheed Aderintob. 1979NGNigerian-American writer and historian
- Adebayo Akinfenwab. 1982GBnot in their usual nameEnglish professional association footballer
- Oluwashina Azeezb. 1992NGnot in their usual nameNigerian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 19 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 69 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Saheed?
- We estimate roughly 544 people bear Saheed (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Saheed have the most bearers?
- Saheed is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled saheed.
- How common is Saheed compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Saheed is the 88th most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
- Is Saheed a male or female name?
- Saheed is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Saheed” — the 88th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.