Saqib
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Saqib has been given to 146 babies in the U.S. since 1986. 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 1996, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Saqib, 2022
1 in 564,000
Saqib over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Saqib?
Saqib had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 564,000
- 6 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 291,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,139 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Saqib sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saqib. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Saqibs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Saqib was born before 1999 — so the typical Saqib is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 43.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 52.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 146
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 43.2% of all recorded uses (63).
Is Saqib 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 1996 (14)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.9% average annual change
Spellings of Saqib
Saqib is not the most common spelling — Samir is, with 28.2% against Saqib's 0.37%.
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 Saqib is used
Across 1910–2025, Saqib was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New 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. Saqib has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Saqib around the world
Where Saqib 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 & Wales1996–2024#5,120in 2024
- Scotland1985–1991#324in 1991
- France1986–1987#2,238in 1987
- Canada1998–2009#2,374in 2009
- South Australia1981–1984#455in 1984
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.
Saqib by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Saqib
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Saqib
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.