Sajid
given name · Latin script
Meaning: who bows in prayer
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/səʒɪd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sajid is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common given name.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 593(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 2.8K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 38K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 593 (inferred from the name graph)
≈390,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
who bows in prayer
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sajid 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #20 | ≈390,000 est. | ≈1 in 593 | listed | Sajid | 136 |
| BD Bangladesh | #419 | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Sajid | 83 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Sajid | 56 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Sajid | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 4 | Sajid | 104 |
| US United States | — | 1,297 | 1 in 256K | 1.3K | Sajid | 184 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Sajid | 15 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present). 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)
Sajid is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, prostrate in worship, bowing in adoration to Allah
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, prostrate in worship, bowing in adoration
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Syed Ahmad Barelvib. 1786INnot in their usual nameMuslim activist
- Sajid Mirb. 1938PKIslamic scholar and politician (1938-2025)
- Sajid Khanb. 1951INIndian actor (1951–2023)
- Sajid Hasanb. 1958PKPakistani actor
- Adnan Sajid Khanb. 1963INcomedian and actor
- Sajid Nadiadwalab. 1966INIndian film producer and director
- Sajid Javidb. 1969GBBritish politician (born 1969)
- Saif Ali Khanb. 1970INnot in their usual nameIndian film actor and producer
- Sajid Khanb. 1970INIndian film director (born 1970)
- Sajid Mahmoodb. 1981GBCricket player of England. (born 1981)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 68 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #10,334 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 26 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7 | #10,334 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 1987 | 4 | #280 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sajid mean, and where does it come from?
- who bows in prayer Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- How do you pronounce Sajid?
- A machine transcription gives /səʒɪd/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- Is Sajid a male or female name?
- Sajid is a male 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 Sajid have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 394 thousand people named Sajid in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sajid.
- How common is the name Sajid?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,297 people named Sajid in 2020, about 1 in 256 thousand residents.
- How common is Sajid compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Sajid is the 20th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sajidThe 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, “Sajid” — the 20th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.