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Sahib

#2,979 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Companion, friend, master

Sahib has been given to 859 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #2,979 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 42 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 93% boys, 7% girls all-time.

Babies named Sahib, 2025

1 in 78,900

Sahib over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Sahib over time

In 2025, Sahib went to 16% girls and 84% boys.

19852025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Sahib: meaning, origin, and history

Companion, friend, master

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sahib means

Sahib means “companion, friend, master”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 798 boys were recorded with the name Sahib between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 42 in 2017; its best national rank was #2,834 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,256 in 2020 to #2,979 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,909 in 2015 to #2,979 in 2025.

In the United States, 61 girls were recorded with the name Sahib between 2004 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2019; its best national rank was #11,224 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,804 in 2020 to #11,740 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,632 in 2015 to #11,740 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Sahib?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 78,900
42 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 40,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,979
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
54,713 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sahib sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 54,713 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sahib. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sahibs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sahib was born before 2014 — so the typical Sahib is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
44.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
798
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 44.1% of all recorded uses (352).

Is Sahib rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+464
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+277
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−70
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.02×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2017 (42)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,834
2013

Spellings of Sahib

Sahib is not the most common spelling — Yahir is, with 16.5% against Sahib's 1.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Sahib is used

Across 1910–2025, Sahib was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 81,367 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sahib has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sahib around the world

Where Sahib ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #811
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2014–2014
    #680
    in 2014
  • France
    2020–2025
    #4,186
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #450
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1968–2013
    #389
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sahib by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,979
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 277
Best rank ever
#2,834
2013
Peak year
2017
42 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
798
Count in 2025
42

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,740
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,064
Best rank ever
#11,224
2019
Peak year
2019
9 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
61
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Sahib

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Sahib

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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