Sahid
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- sah-HEED
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Sahid is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “witness, martyr”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Sahid mean?
Arabic: South Asian spelling of Shahid
“witness, martyr”
A Bangladeshi and South Asian spelling of Shahid, from Arabic shahid 'witness', also used of a martyr.
Is Sahid a girl's or a boy's name?
Sahid is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sahid in the UK?
No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1999, with 5 boys.
Sahid in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 3 | #4,829 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 3 | #4,865 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 4 | #3,748 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 3 | #3,992 |
| 2004 | 3 | #3,792 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 4 | #2,751 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 5 | #2,184 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 3 | #2,949 |
How popular is Sahid in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,710th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Sahid, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,029th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 25 boys. It first appears in the records in 1981.
2025 had fewer boys named Sahid than any year since 2017.
Half of all the boys named Sahid in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Sahid in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 15 | #5,899 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,512 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,762 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,084 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,029 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,099 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,132 |
| 2017 | 7 | #9,691 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,721 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,320 |
| 2014 | 17 | #5,248 |
| 2013 | 21 | #4,461 |
| 2012 | 8 | #8,858 |
| 2011 | 25 | #3,992 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,365 |
| 2009 | 12 | #6,798 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,710 |
| 2007 | 18 | #4,994 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,886 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,626 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,259 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,810 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,697 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,438 |
| 2000 | 9 | #6,832 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,553 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,259 |
| 1996 | 6 | #7,964 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 8 | #5,934 |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,260 |
Names like Sahid
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Muhammad, Hamza, Ahmed, Zayd, Fahad, Abdullah, Saif, Khalid, Musa, Umar, Zayaan, Ziyad
Names related to Sahid
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Sahid: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sahid, updated 20 October 2026.