ست
given name · Arabic script
Meaning: masculine of سِتَّة (sitta, “six”)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
ست is a given name written in the Arabic script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 7.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 27K
- SDSudan≈1 in 32K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
masculine of سِتَّة (sitta, “six”)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
ست counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the eg-arabic-names-github register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
ست is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ush, peeled sponge
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Punjabi, true, correct
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In acw, grandmother
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In apc, lady, woman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In phr, seven
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | Egyptian Arabic given names (GitHub) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name ست mean, and where does it come from?
- masculine of سِتَّة (sitta, “six”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is ست a male or female name?
- ست is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does ست have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named ست in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ست.
- How common is the name ست?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3,900 people in Egypt have ست as their first given name, about 1 in 27 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is ست compared with other names?
- In the Sudan, ست is the 126th most common given name of 4,989 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about ست?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D8%B3%D8%AAThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “ست” — the 126th most common given name in Sudan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.