Saidi
surname · Swahili · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Saidi is a surname, most frequently recorded in Morocco, where it is the 48th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Swahili and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ruler, master.
- TNTunisia1 in 1.5K◐
- TZTanzania1 in 2.4K
- DZAlgeria1 in 3.3K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈7.2K ●
- Sources
- 260 ●
- 1 in 15K ◐
across 14 countries
47K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Meaning & origin●
ruler, master
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #48 | 4,162 | 3.9K rec. | — | — | Saidi | 73 |
| TZ Tanzania | #135 | 3,529 | 808 rec. | — | 7 | Saidi | 21 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,231△ | 787 rec. | 1 in 15K | 3.2K | Saidi | 46 |
| TN Tunisia | #31 | 2,283 | 2K rec. | — | — | Saidi | 47 |
| DZ Algeria | #49 | 2,098 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Saidi | 45 |
| FR France | #402 | 1,180 | 31K rec. | 1 in 57K | 1.2K | Saidi | 260 |
| US United States | — | 684 | 1.5K rec. | 1 in 486K | 1.2K | Saidi | 129 |
| BE Belgium | — | 637 | 1.2K rec. | 1 in 18K | 1.2K | Saidi | 28 |
| OM Oman | #124 | 518 | 506 rec. | — | — | Saidi | 38 |
| KE Kenya | — | 490 | 26 rec. | — | listed | Saidi | 9 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 412 | 299 rec. | — | — | Saidi | 18 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 394△ | 142 rec. | 1 in 44K | 394 | Saidi | 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●
- Swahili91K37%
- French49K20%
- English29K12%
- Arabic13K5%
- Spanish11K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Swahili | 90,873 | 37% |
| French | 48,667 | 20% |
| English | 29,424 | 12% |
| Arabic | 13,259 | 5% |
| Spanish | 10,799 | 4% |
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●
Saidi is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
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as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
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 |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 35 |
| 2000 | 35 |
| 2001 | 35 |
| 2002 | 33 |
| 2003 | 34 |
| 2004 | 32 |
| 2005 | 30 |
| 2006 | 29 |
| 2007 | 29 |
| 2008 | 29 |
| 2009 | 27 |
| 2010 | 28 |
| 2011 | 28 |
| 2012 | 28 |
| 2013 | 28 |
| 2014 | 29 |
| 2015 | 31 |
| 2016 | 32 |
| 2017 | 32 |
| 2018 | 32 |
| 2019 | 32 |
| 2020 | 31 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Nasser Saïdib. 1950LBLebanese politician
- Ali Jaberb. 1954SAnot in their usual nameformer Imam of Masjid al-Haram (1954–2005)
- Redouane Saïdib. 1971DZAlgerian handball player
- Karim Saidib. 1973FRFrench actor
- Ismaël Saidib. 1976BEBelgian film director
- Mohamed Saidib. 1981DZAlgerian association football player
- Karim Saidib. 1983TNTunisian association football player
- Salaheddine Saidib. 1987MAMoroccan footballer
- Anisse Saidib. 2008USTunisian-American soccer player
- Khaled SaïdiTNTunisian association football player
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 61 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.2K | #1,594 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.2K | #1,594 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 1.2K | #1,011 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,503 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 684 | #33,379 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 637 | #2,297 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 494 | #41,522 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 394 | #5,111 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 304 | #2,948 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 248 | #6,307 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 238 | #5,396 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 244 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Saidi?
- We estimate roughly 7.2 thousand people bear Saidi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does Saidi have the most bearers?
- Saidi is most frequently recorded in Morocco, where it is most often spelled saidi.
- How common is Saidi compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Saidi is the 48th most common surname of 210,764 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Saidi mean?
- Recorded meaning: ruler, master
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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, “Saidi” — the 48th most common surname in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.