Seif
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Seif is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A sand dune that elongates parallel to the prevailing wind.
- TNTunisia≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 2.3K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 4.2K
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈46,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A sand dune that elongates parallel to the prevailing wind.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Seif 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #287 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Seif | 133 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 7 | Seif | 40 |
| DZ Algeria | #246 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | listed | Seif | 49 |
| TN Tunisia | #130 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Seif | 63 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Seif | 54 |
| US United States | — | 413 | 1 in 805K | 1.4K | Seif | 169 |
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 dz-kaggle-names register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. 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)
Seif 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 German, cross-reference; see SELB
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, s. SELB Seligfer): 1. s.SAL. 2. mhd saelec "glücklich". 3. ON. Seelig, OFr. 4. sl. PN. 535 Selk Sense S(i)edlik (so Seel|idce, ing(er)r isch, Zeelke). 5. jüd. < Salomo, auch Uber- setzung von Ascher und Baruch. Seligmüller &. Salweide Selk-: s. SAL
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Romanian, safe box
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, thirst
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, AIDS
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Seif Wanlyb. 1906EGEgyptian painter (1906-1979)
- Seif el-Din el-Zoubib. 1913ILIsraeli Arab politician
- Seif Ali Iddib. 1942TZTanzanian Member of Parliament
- Seif Sharif Hamadb. 1943TZFirst Vice President of Zanzibar (1943-2021)
- Seif Kadhimb. 1991SESwedish association football player
- Seif Tekab. 1991TNTunisian association football player
- Seif Teirib. 1994SDSudanese association football player
- Seif Asser Sherifb. 1995EGEgyptian trampoline gymnast
- Seif Eissab. 1998EGEgyptian taekwondo practitioner
- Seif El-Deraab. 1998EGEgyptian handball player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 49 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 410 | #23,638 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 14 | — |
| TZ Tanzania | INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results | 2020 | 7 | #23 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #23,638 |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Seif mean, and where does it come from?
- A sand dune that elongates parallel to the prevailing wind. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Seif have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Seif in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled seif.
- How common is the name Seif?
- In the United States, the national register counted 413 people named Seif in 2020, about 1 in 805 thousand residents.
- How common is Seif compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Seif is the 287th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
- Is Seif a male or female name?
- Seif 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.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/seifThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Seif” — the 287th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.