Sahib
loc · Urdu · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sahib is a name, most frequently recorded in Pakistan. It appears chiefly in Urdu and Hindi, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: reddish brown.
- PKPakistan1 in 296◐
- AZAzerbaijan1 in 989
- INIndia1 in 57K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.3K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 111 ●
- 1 in 27K ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
45K records
Official registry-verified
Georgia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Сахиб in RU Russia, AZ Azerbaijan, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 more, Şahab in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, IQ Iraq, Saheb in AF Afghanistan, IR Iran and Сахіб in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
reddish brown
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | 155,417 | 830 rec. | — | listed | Sahib | 49 |
| IN India | 76,729 | 15K rec. | — | 9.1K | Sahib | 103 |
| RU Russia | 11,043 | 11K rec. | — | #2,044 | Сахиб | 92 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | 1,117 | 1.4K rec. | — | 322 | Сахиб | 41 |
| UA Ukraine | 913 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Сахіб | 24 |
| TR Türkiye | 863 | 1.9K rec. | — | — | Şahab | 10 |
| US United States | 763 | 3.8K rec. | 1 in 436K | 763 | Sahib | 111 |
| SY Syria | 354 | 645 rec. | — | — | Şahab | 4 |
| IQ Iraq | 303 | 1.7K rec. | — | — | Şahab | 23 |
| CA Canada | 172 | 359 rec. | — | 16 | Sahib | 40 |
| GE Georgia | 147 | 113 rec. | 1 in 27K | 147 | Საჰიბ | 15 |
| SE Sweden | 136△ | 34 rec. | 1 in 75K | 136 | — | 12 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Urdu155K9%
- Hindi76K5%
- English3561%
- Pashto521%
- Arabic241%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Urdu | 155,416 | 9% |
| Hindi | 76,451 | 5% |
| English | 356 | 1% |
| Pashto | 52 | 1% |
| Arabic | 24 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Sahib is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, elegant
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In English, A term of respect for a white European or other man of rank in colonial India.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Azerbaijani, owner, possessor
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1899 | 1 |
| 1916 | 1 |
| 1917 | 1 |
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1922 | 2 |
| 1923 | 1 |
| 1924 | 1 |
| 1925 | 1 |
| 1926 | 2 |
| 1927 | 4 |
| 1928 | 5 |
| 1929 | 5 |
| 1930 | 5 |
| 1931 | 7 |
| 1932 | 3 |
| 1933 | 8 |
| 1934 | 10 |
| 1935 | 8 |
| 1936 | 5 |
| 1937 | 7 |
| 1938 | 5 |
| 1939 | 6 |
| 1940 | 11 |
| 1941 | 8 |
| 1942 | 13 |
| 1943 | 14 |
| 1944 | 16 |
| 1945 | 21 |
| 1946 | 24 |
| 1947 | 28 |
| 1948 | 22 |
| 1949 | 29 |
| 1950 | 24 |
| 1951 | 18 |
| 1952 | 36 |
| 1953 | 22 |
| 1954 | 32 |
| 1955 | 24 |
| 1956 | 24 |
| 1957 | 32 |
| 1958 | 44 |
| 1959 | 43 |
| 1960 | 32 |
| 1961 | 34 |
| 1962 | 50 |
| 1963 | 34 |
| 1964 | 40 |
| 1965 | 44 |
| 1966 | 49 |
| 1967 | 52 |
| 1968 | 42 |
| 1969 | 40 |
| 1970 | 49 |
| 1971 | 50 |
| 1972 | 72 |
| 1973 | 56 |
| 1974 | 65 |
| 1975 | 52 |
| 1976 | 72 |
| 1977 | 56 |
| 1978 | 55 |
| 1979 | 58 |
| 1980 | 64 |
| 1981 | 90 |
| 1982 | 108 |
| 1983 | 104 |
| 1984 | 122 |
| 1985 | 100 |
| 1986 | 108 |
| 1987 | 140 |
| 1988 | 150 |
| 1989 | 135 |
| 1990 | 132 |
| 1991 | 167 |
| 1992 | 197 |
| 1993 | 236 |
| 1994 | 213 |
| 1995 | 219 |
| 1996 | 115 |
| 1997 | 132 |
| 1998 | 108 |
| 1999 | 2 |
| 2008 | 4 |
| 2010 | 3 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 |
| 2014 | 14 |
| 2015 | 5 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 88 years between 1899–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Sahib Khazalb. 1943IQIraqi footballer
- Soukaina Sahibb. 1995MAMoroccan taekwondo practitioner
- Abdullah SahibPKPakistani politician
- Ahmed Salih SahibIQresearcher
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 56 sources across 32 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 · 380 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sahib?
- We estimate roughly 1.3 thousand people bear Sahib (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sahib have the most bearers?
- Sahib is most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is most often spelled sahib.
- What does the name Sahib mean?
- Recorded meaning: reddish brown
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sahib”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.