Globally, Shaykh (Shaykh 
, Шайх 
, الشيخ 
) is a rare predominantly boy's, but very seldom girly given name. The given name Shaykh is characteristic of Lebanon, where it is a rare masculine name, Qatar, where it is a rare female name, and Kazakhstan, where it is a very rare boy's name. In absolute terms, this name is the most popular in Lebanon, Turkey, and Russia. More frequently, Shaykh is the last name as well as the forename.
| shaykh al-mahmudi Sultan of Egypt and Syria (r. 1412–1421) (b. 1369) |
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shaykh syed mir mirak andrabi Islamic scholar, IN (b. 1515) |
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| shaykh ghulām muhammad sirhindi (b. 1690) |
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| shaykh safiy-allah mujaddidi kabuli naqshbandi (b. 1743) |
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| shaykh jawhar b. haydar b. ‘ali mystic and Islamic scholar of Shonke, southeast Wollo, Ethiopia (b. 1835) |
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| shaykh muhammad-'alí Indian Baha's (b. 1860) |
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| shaykh 'abdullaah swaalih al-farsy (b. 1912) |
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shaykh ali khan zand IR |
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| shaykh hassan cisse Senegalese Sufi leader (1945-2008), SN (b. 1945) |
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| shaykh 'alī ibn al-dhahab scribe of manuscript MS Or 115, Columbia University |
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| shaykh 'abbasi Persian painter |
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| shaykh mahmud zarin-qalam Iranian calligrapher active at the Timurid and Qara Qoyunlu courts |
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| ahmad ibn shaykh KE |
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| shaykh ghulam muhammad masoom sirhindi faruqi |
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| shaykh muhammad ismail sirhindi faruqi |
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