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Saif

#1,320 in 2025Boys' name

Sword

Saif has been given to 2,526 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #1,320 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 147 recorded.

Babies named Saif, 2025

1 in 22,600

Saif over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saif: meaning, origin, and history

Sword

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Saif means

Saif means “sword”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,526 boys were recorded with the name Saif between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 147 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,320 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,846 in 2020 to #1,320 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,552 in 2015 to #1,320 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 Saif?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 22,600
147 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 11,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,320
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saif 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,633 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saif. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Saifs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saif was born before 2013 — so the typical Saif is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,526
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.0% of all recorded uses (858).

Is Saif 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
+38
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+526
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+232
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (147)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,320
2025

Spellings of Saif

Saif is not the most common spelling — Sam is, with 29.7% against Saif's 0.59%.

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 Saif is used

Across 2016–2025, Saif was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 5,556 boys, against 1 in 13,937 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

118 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 5,556
  2. 2Michigan1 in 6,667
  3. 3Illinois1 in 9,091
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 9,091
  5. 5California1 in 16,667
  6. 6Florida1 in 16,667
  7. 7Ohio1 in 16,667
  8. 8Texas1 in 16,667

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.

Saif around the world

Where Saif 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
    #658
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1994–2025
    #560
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2011–2025
    #509
    in 2025
  • France
    1976–2025
    #1,194
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #564
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, 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. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Saif

People whose public names include Saif, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Saif by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,320
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 526
Best rank ever
#1,320
2025
Peak year
2025
147 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,526
Count in 2025
147

Names similar to Saif

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

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Names with a curve like Saif

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Saif, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Saif

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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