Sahib

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Sahib: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Sahib: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #646 in 2018, and it stood at #711 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
43times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#646highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2008–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2008	#3005
2011	#5785
2013	#4050
2014	#2862
2015	#3252
2016	#5785
2017	#5765
2018	#2901
2019	#3541
2020	#3117
2021	#2499
2022	#2673
2023	#1863
2024	#2411

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2357 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #646 among boys in England and Wales, in 2018 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2411 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Sahib appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 867 births with the name.

Sahib across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Sahib's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2357 (1996)	#646 (2018)	#711 (2024)	29 of 29	867 (1996–2024)	54 (2018)
England and Wales · Girls	#3005 (2008)	#1863 (2023)	#2411 (2024)	14 of 17	102 (2008–2024)	15 (2023)

Sahib by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Sahib in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	25	4 of 10	6
2000s	200	10 of 10	20
2010sbusiest	445	10 of 10	45
2020s	197	5 of 10	39

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 45 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Sahib appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #646 in England and Wales in 2018.

Sahib's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2411	11	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#711	50	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1863	15	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#827	39	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2673	9	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#949	32	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#939	32	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3117	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#739	44	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#3541	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#663	52	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2901	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#646	54	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#709	49	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#672	52	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3252	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#753	43	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2862	8	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#916	32	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#692	47	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#719	46	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#831	36	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#854	34	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#848	33	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3005	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1124	22	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#926	27	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#960	24	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1047	20	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1222	15	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#912	21	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1411	10	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1135	13	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1002	15	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1850	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1263	10	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2022	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #646, first reached in 2018.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 54 births, registered in England and Wales in 2018.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Sahej · #2964, 11y
Sahel · #1756, 10y
Sahiba · #1522, 29y
Sahibjot · #2194, 13y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Avneet · #645, 29y
Halimah · #645, 29y
Nimra · #645, 29y
Uzma · #645, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Avneet · #645, 29y
Denny · #645, 29y
Halimah · #645, 29y
Naila · #647, 30y

Sahib was ranked #646 in England and Wales · Boys in 2018. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Sahib and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Sahib without appearing here.

Sahib moved ahead of

Tracy Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3117 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2499 and #5581.
Geraldine Compare
In 2017 they stood at #5785 and #5785 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2901 and #5666.
Jeanette Compare
In 2017 they stood at #5785 and #5785 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2901 and #5666.
Kristin Compare
In 2017 they stood at #5785 and #4763 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2901 and #5666.

Moved ahead of Sahib

Arlo Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3252 and #5730 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #4096.
Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4050 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2862 and #1628.
Marilyn Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1863 and #2063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2411 and #1541.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1863 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2411 and #1743.

Moved the opposite way to Sahib

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sahib went from #2357 to #711 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sahib went from #2357 to #711 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sahib went from #2357 to #711 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sahib went from #2357 to #711 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Sahib

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sahib went from #2357 to #711 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sahib went from #2357 to #711 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sahib went from #2357 to #711 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Sahib went from #2357 to #711 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #646 in England and Wales in 2018. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Sahib

Sahib at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Sahib across 2 official records

Sahib by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Sahib appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Sahib and the names beside it

Sahib moved ahead of

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Sahib at a glance

Sahib across 2 official records

Sahib by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Sahib appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Sahib

Sahib and the names beside it

Sahib moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Sahib

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Moved the same way as Sahib