Siddiq

Boys' name

Honest, truthful

Siddiq has been given to 183 babies in the U.S. since 1990. 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 2003, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Siddiq, 2024

1 in 669,000

Siddiq over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Siddiq: meaning, origin, and history

Honest, truthful

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Siddiq means

Siddiq means “honest, truthful”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Siddiq is used in Arabic and Urdu.

Another recorded pronunciation is /sˤid.ˈdiːq/ for Siddiq.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 183 boys were recorded with the name Siddiq between 1990 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2003; its best national rank was #6,188 in 2003.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Siddiq?

Siddiq had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 669,000; 5 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 345,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,412 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Siddiq 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Siddiq. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Siddiqs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Siddiq was born before 2008 — so the typical Siddiq is around 17 today.

Median birth year: 2008; About 17 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 30.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 76.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 183; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 30.1% of all recorded uses (55).

Is Siddiq 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2003 (12)
Years since peak: 22; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 33.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #6,188; 2003

Spellings of Siddiq

Siddiq is not the most common spelling — Sadiq is, with 78.8% against Siddiq's 21.2%.

Sadiq78.8%682
Siddiq21.2%183

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.

Siddiq around the world

Where Siddiq 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
2008–2024
#5,120
in 2024

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

Siddiq 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: #6,188; 2003
Peak year: 2003; 12 that year
First recorded: 1990
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 183
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Siddiq

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

Siddh Sidi Sidak Saadiq Sidhant Siddhant Sidharth Siddhan Sadiq Siddarth Siddhanth Sidhvik Sidiki Siddhartha Sidarth Sidon Sidhanth Sidy Sidh Saddiq Sidhan Siddeeq Sid Siddhik

Sibling names for Siddiq

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

For a sister

Anastacia Delanie Abigale Ashtyn Hailie Kayli Iyana Alize

For a brother

Alexandre Jair Keven Kadin Estevan Dallin Keon Zakary

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