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Saifuddin

Boys' name

From Arabic سَيْفُ ٱلدِين; literal meaning unconfirmed

Saifuddin has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 2016. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2017, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Saifuddin, 2021

1 in 678,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saifuddin: meaning, origin, and history

From Arabic سَيْفُ ٱلدِين; literal meaning unconfirmed

Arabic

What Saifuddin means

Saifuddin is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Saifuddin is used in Indonesian. Its origins include Arabic.

Saifuddin comes through Arabic سَيْفُ ٱلدِين.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Indonesian, Saifuddin is pronounced /sajˈfu.din/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 22 boys were recorded with the name Saifuddin between 2016 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2017; its best national rank was #11,755 in 2020.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Saifuddin?

Saifuddin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saifuddin 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saifuddin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Saifuddins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saifuddin was born before 2017 — so the typical Saifuddin is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
22
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Saifuddin 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2017 (6)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,755
2020

Saifuddin around the world

Where Saifuddin 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
    2016–2023
    #4,108
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Saifuddin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,755
2020
Peak year
2017
6 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
22
Count in 2025
Under 5

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

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Sibling names for Saifuddin

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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