Saif

maleStatistical record

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

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

Saif: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #314 in 2002, and it stood at #509 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
31times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#314highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#379
1997	#323
1998	#351
1999	#341
2000	#376
2001	#378
2002	#314
2003	#317
2004	#321
2005	#325
2006	#357
2007	#406
2008	#371
2009	#444
2010	#503
2011	#479
2012	#649
2013	#514
2014	#643
2015	#719
2016	#833
2017	#684
2018	#675
2019	#813
2020	#668
2021	#738
2022	#758
2023	#754
2024	#729

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

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

In 2011: #479 among boys in England and Wales, #730 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #379 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: #314 among boys in England and Wales, in 2002 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #509 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Saif 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 1,912 births with the name.

Saif 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.

Saif'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	#379 (1996)	#314 (2002)	#729 (2024)	29 of 29	1,912 (1996–2024)	101 (2008)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#730 (2011)	#509 (2025)	#509 (2025)	2 of 15	9 (2011–2025)	6 (2025)

Saif 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 Saif in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	272	4 of 10	68
2000sbusiest	859	10 of 10	86
2010s	549	10 of 10	55
2020s	232	5 of 10	46

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 86 births a year.

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

Saif appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #314 in England and Wales in 2002.

Saif'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	male	#729	48	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#754	44	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#758	43	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#738	46	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#668	51	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#813	38	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#675	51	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#684	51	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#833	38	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#719	46	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#643	53	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#514	72	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#649	53	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#479	77	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#503	70	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#444	84	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#371	101	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#406	89	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#357	96	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#325	98	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#321	93	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#317	88	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#314	85	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#378	63	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#376	62	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#341	73	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#351	67	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#323	75	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#379	57	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#509	6	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#730	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #314, first reached in 2002.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 101 births, registered in England and Wales in 2008.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2011, and 15 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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.

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Saidhbh · #511, 10y
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Saifullah · #1270, 28y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, 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.

Billie-Jo · #314, 28y
Edison · #314, 27y
Eavan · #313, 32y
Nick · #313, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Arianne · #314, 29y
Billie-Jo · #314, 28y
Edison · #314, 27y
Elayna · #314, 23y

Saif was ranked #314 in England and Wales · Boys in 2002. 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.

Saif 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 Saif without appearing here.

Saif moved ahead of

Jakob Compare
In 2022 they stood at #758 and #746 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #754 and #1139.
Kenneth Compare
In 2016 they stood at #833 and #818 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #684 and #1021.
Scott Compare
In 2023 they stood at #754 and #691 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #729 and #1025.
Craig Compare
In 2012 they stood at #649 and #577 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #514 and #771.

Moved ahead of Saif

Rian Compare
In 2018 they stood at #675 and #711 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #813 and #493.
Oisin Compare
In 2020 they stood at #668 and #766 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #738 and #433.
Erik Compare
In 2013 they stood at #514 and #524 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #643 and #367.
Noel Compare
In 2011 they stood at #479 and #546 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #649 and #445.

Moved the opposite way to Saif

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Saif went from #379 to #729 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Saif went from #379 to #729 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Saif went from #379 to #729 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Saif went from #379 to #729 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Saif

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Saif went from #379 to #729 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Saif went from #379 to #729 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Saif went from #379 to #729 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Saif went from #379 to #729 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

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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.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #314 in England and Wales in 2002. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Saif across 2 official records

Saif by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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