Saif

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Saif is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Oman it is the most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Alternative form of seif (“type of sand dune”).

rarermore common
  • OMOman1 in 48◐
  • DZAlgeria1 in 81
  • MAMorocco1 in 196

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈50K ●

across 6 countries

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
310 ●

1.5M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 3.2K ◐

Spain

Spellings & scripts●

SaidLatin · English●343K records
СаидCyrillic · Russian●73K records
สอดThai · Thai●2K records
ᲡაიდGeorgian · Georgian●400 records
সাঈদBengali · Bangla●276 records
ՍաիդArmenian · Armenian●0 records
세이드Hangul · Korean●0 records

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Said in IN India, DZ Algeria, FR France and 14 more, Saeed in PK Pakistan, EG Egypt, GB United Kingdom and 3 more, Саид in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and Seyed in IR Iran.

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●

Alternative form of seif (“type of sand dune”).

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.

Where Saif is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—313,999132K rec.—40KSaid161
DZ Algeria#7299,25221K rec.—#9Said75
PK Pakistan#99218,36921K rec.—listedSaeed137
BD Bangladesh#217137,4907.1K rec.——Saif97
TR Türkiye#709118,903151K rec.——Said57
RU Russia#33093,46667K rec.—#151Саид134
MA Morocco#678,24185K rec.—listedSaid127
EG Egypt#10075,36972K rec.—listedSaeed159
SY Syria#9140,67771K rec.——Said38
IR Iran—38,32934K rec.——Seyed95
GB United Kingdom#87929,41827K rec.—15Saeed120
SA Saudi Arabia#8123,05219K rec.—listedSaeed172

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English84K20%
  • Arabic80K19%
  • Bangla75K18%
  • Hindi68K16%
  • Urdu61K14%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English83,74620%
Arabic79,73219%
Bangla74,89118%
Hindi68,15316%
Urdu60,68014%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Saif is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name7.6K records spelled Saif63 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Argentina, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Sàif, Sãîf, Šäîf, Šãīf, Sàíf

  • a separate given name7.3K records spelled Saif6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Iraq

    Also written Saīf, Saïf, Saĭf, Saíf, ٍsaif

  • Danish given name1.4K records spelled Saif21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

    Also written Sâīf, Śaìf, Šãif, Säîf, Śãíf

  • Sinhala given name1.1K records spelled Saif2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Türkiye

    Also written Saïf

  • Russian given name753 records spelled Saif21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Iraq, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Саиф, Сайф, Саіф, Sayf, Саїф

  • Khmer given name435 records spelled Saif3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Morocco, Pakistan

    Also written Säîf, Saïf

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Saif is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Saif är ett arabiskt namn som innehåller ett ord med betydelsen ’svärd’.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In Arabic, sword

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • sword; sword bearer

    as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman

  • Sword, saber,

    as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names

  • In Welsh, third-person singular present indicative/future of sefyll

    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●

05001K1.5K192019401960198020001.3K · 1995

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Saif in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1916–2015
Yearrecords
19161
19181
19213
19233
19243
19252
19282
19311
19321
19331
19343
19353
19361
19374
19383
19403
19426
19433
19447
19451
19464
19477
19484
19493
19507
195111
19526
19535
19544
19555
19564
19576
19587
195913
19608
19617
196213
196313
196412
196514
19667
196716
196837
196911
197023
197128
197234
197333
197440
197549
197680
197736
197875
197968
198077
198168
1982110
1983142
1984125
1985135
1986104
1987178
1988199
1989231
1990324
1991533
1992740
19931,134
19941,206
19951,334
1996759
1997692
1998519
199953
20011
20089
20101
20132
201438
201515

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 80 years between 1916–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19401960198020002020Saif Ul Haque, b. 1958Saif Saaeed Shaheen, b. 1982Saif Nabeel, b. 1986Saif Azzuz, b. 1987Saif Al Ameri, b. 1998Saif Al Rammahi, b. 2002

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 64 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Saif
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.2K#5,334
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—2K#432
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—1.4K#2,628
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.1K#24,345
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—880#1,857
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010626#35,866
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020561—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—362#3,125
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000300#62,396
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—255#3,003
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—203#8,927
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—194#18,090

Reference works 4

  • 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)
  • 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 · 396 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Saif?
We estimate roughly 50 thousand people bear Saif (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Saif have the most bearers?
Saif is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled said.
How common is Saif compared with other names?
In Oman, Saif is the most common given name of 5,236 given names recorded there.
Is Saif a male or female name?
Saif 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.
What does the name Saif mean?
Recorded meaning: Alternative form of seif (“type of sand dune”).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Saif” — the most common given name in Oman. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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