Sayyidah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- SAY-yi-dah
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
Sayyidah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “lady, noblewoman”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies).
What does Sayyidah mean?
Arabic: feminine of sayyid
“lady, noblewoman”
Is Sayyidah a girl's or a boy's name?
Sayyidah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sayyidah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Sayyidah, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2003, with 4 girls.
2025 had more girls named Sayyidah than any year since 2011.
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Sayyidah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 4 | #4,742 |
| 2007 | 4 | #4,494 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 4 | #3,768 |
| 2002 | 1 | #5,540 |
Names like Sayyidah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Sumayyah, Safa, Aaliyah, Safiya, Nusaybah, Umaymah, Aakifah, Umamah, Zainab, Farah, Ruqayyah, Aaminah
Names related to Sayyidah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Sayyidah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sayyidah, updated 20 October 2026.