Saif

#1,315 for boys in 2025, 147 births

Peak · boys
2025 · 147 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,526
since 1978

Saif over time

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Rank among boys' names. Saif has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202019boysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025#1,315147
2024#1,355140
2023#1,591109
2022#1,642105
2021#1,85383
2020#1,83381
2019#1,64299
2018#1,584105
2017#1,64496
2016#1,81183
2015#1,546105
2014#1,69190
2013#1,94271
2012#1,77584
2011#2,28456
2010#1,98669
2009#2,05067
2008#1,87477
2007#2,09465
2006#2,22157
2005#1,96764
2004#1,80469
2003#1,71771
2002#2,15549
2001#2,52038
2000#1,89555
1999#1,93250
1998#2,27439
1997#2,12641
1996#2,01743
1995#1,86446
1994#2,04140
1993#3,24620
1992#5,23610
1991#4,23113
1990#5,8238
1989#5,1659
1988#4,7869
1987#3,20115
1986#4,8538
1985#6,5235
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1982#4,5938
1981#4,5098
1980#5,5256
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First appearance
1978

The first year at least five boys were named Saif! It came in at #4,554, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1979, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Saif
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 40 spots since 2024 (#1,355#1,315)
  • 518 spots since 2020 (#1,833#1,315)
  • 231 spots since 2015 (#1,546#1,315)
Rise & fade · boys
47 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1978
  • Peaked 2025 at #1,315 (147 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 11,620
  • Highest: 1 in 11,620 boys born in 2025 were named Saif (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 34.0% of all boys named Saif (858) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s7#4,554 (1978)#4,554
1980s74#3,201 (1987)#4,960
1990s310#1,864 (1995)#3,079
2000s612#1,717 (2003)#2,030
2010s858#1,546 (2015)#1,791
2020s665#1,315 (2025)#1,598

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Saif in 2019

boys
#1,642
99 births · 1 in 18,123 boys

Top boys' names in 2019

  1. #1Liam20,631
  2. #2Noah19,178
  3. #3Oliver13,967
  4. #4William13,658
  5. #5Elijah13,436
  6. #6James13,198
  7. #7Benjamin13,044
  8. #8Lucas12,483
  9. #9Mason11,484
  10. #10Alexander11,327
  11. #1,642Saif99
More about 2019

boys

1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 18,123 of them was named Saif, which outranked 88.4% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Saif
  1. #1,634Lester100
  2. #1,634Linden100
  3. #1,634Trevon100
  4. #1,642Saif99
  5. #1,642Amin99
  6. #1,642Arman99
  7. #1,642Axell99
  8. #1,652Armon98
  9. #1,652Cecil98
  10. #1,652Fred98

Tied with 9 names at #1,642; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2018
Risers
  1. 5,830Sekani#6,703#873
  2. 5,230Ermias#5,770#540
  3. 654Amias#1,478#824
  4. 623Kyro#1,343#720
  5. 512Aziel#1,465#953
Fallers
  1. 376Jaxtyn#776#1,152
  2. 252Brysen#860#1,112
  3. 220Coen#814#1,034
  4. 219Chad#899#1,118
  5. 219Imran#933#1,152

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2019