Saiful
given name · Bangla · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Saiful is a given name, most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is the 37th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Bangla and English, written in the Latin script.
- BDBangladesh1 in 444◐
- MYMalaysia1 in 5K
- INIndia1 in 35K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈581 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 137 ●
- 1 in 186K ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
70K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Saif-Ul in NL Netherlands.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #37 | 639,277 | 14K rec. | — | 461 | Saiful | 122 |
| IN India | — | 92,520 | 38K rec. | — | 40 | Saiful | 83 |
| MY Malaysia | #358 | 12,937 | 9.9K rec. | — | — | Saiful | 50 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,674 | 610 rec. | — | — | Saiful | 58 |
| SG Singapore | #601 | 836 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Saiful | 22 |
| AU Australia | — | 488 | 492 rec. | — | — | Saiful | 55 |
| US United States | — | 382 | 4.3K rec. | 1 in 871K | 382 | Saiful | 137 |
| IT Italy | — | 276 | 358 rec. | — | 1 | Saiful | 14 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 231 | 41 rec. | — | listed | Saiful | 21 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 175 | 222 rec. | — | — | Saiful | 6 |
| JP Japan | — | 99 | 95 rec. | — | — | Saiful | 21 |
| DE Germany | — | 79 | 76 rec. | — | — | Saiful | 28 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Bangla384K45%
- English320K37%
- Hindi45K5%
- Indonesian43K5%
- 27K3%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Bangla | 384,357 | 45% |
| English | 319,748 | 37% |
| Hindi | 45,213 | 5% |
| Indonesian | 42,711 | 5% |
| 26,748 | 3% |
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 |
|---|---|
| 1914 | 1 |
| 1917 | 1 |
| 1919 | 1 |
| 1922 | 5 |
| 1924 | 1 |
| 1925 | 2 |
| 1926 | 3 |
| 1927 | 8 |
| 1928 | 3 |
| 1929 | 5 |
| 1930 | 3 |
| 1931 | 1 |
| 1932 | 15 |
| 1933 | 6 |
| 1934 | 5 |
| 1935 | 9 |
| 1936 | 6 |
| 1937 | 10 |
| 1938 | 6 |
| 1939 | 12 |
| 1940 | 12 |
| 1941 | 13 |
| 1942 | 27 |
| 1943 | 10 |
| 1944 | 21 |
| 1945 | 24 |
| 1946 | 25 |
| 1947 | 41 |
| 1948 | 10 |
| 1949 | 8 |
| 1950 | 27 |
| 1951 | 24 |
| 1952 | 48 |
| 1953 | 17 |
| 1954 | 31 |
| 1955 | 27 |
| 1956 | 18 |
| 1957 | 48 |
| 1958 | 43 |
| 1959 | 42 |
| 1960 | 39 |
| 1961 | 42 |
| 1962 | 109 |
| 1963 | 48 |
| 1964 | 56 |
| 1965 | 54 |
| 1966 | 45 |
| 1967 | 70 |
| 1968 | 46 |
| 1969 | 44 |
| 1970 | 63 |
| 1971 | 29 |
| 1972 | 55 |
| 1973 | 45 |
| 1974 | 50 |
| 1975 | 50 |
| 1976 | 47 |
| 1977 | 39 |
| 1978 | 56 |
| 1979 | 42 |
| 1980 | 17 |
| 1981 | 55 |
| 1982 | 42 |
| 1983 | 54 |
| 1984 | 59 |
| 1985 | 64 |
| 1986 | 29 |
| 1987 | 46 |
| 1988 | 48 |
| 1989 | 47 |
| 1990 | 46 |
| 1991 | 60 |
| 1992 | 51 |
| 1993 | 74 |
| 1994 | 76 |
| 1995 | 63 |
| 1996 | 25 |
| 1997 | 29 |
| 1998 | 19 |
| 1999 | 4 |
| 2008 | 17 |
| 2010 | 18 |
| 2011 | 9 |
| 2012 | 8 |
| 2013 | 2 |
| 2014 | 17 |
| 2015 | 9 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 87 years between 1914–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Saiful Alamb. 1956BDBangladeshi journalist
- Saiful Islamb. 1963GBBritish chemist
- Mufti Saiful Islamb. 1974BDIslamic scholar
- Wan Saiful Wan Janb. 1975MYMalaysian politician (b. 1975)
- Saiful SaifulIDresearcher
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 29 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 · 218 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Saiful?
- We estimate roughly 581 people bear Saiful (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Saiful have the most bearers?
- Saiful is most frequently recorded in Bangladesh, where it is most often spelled saiful.
- How common is Saiful compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Saiful is the 37th most common given name of 28,624 given names recorded there.
- Is Saiful a male or female name?
- Saiful 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, “Saiful” — the 37th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.