Sidi
loc · Latin script
Meaning: abbr. of Sayyid; Mr. or descendant of the Prophet Muhammad
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sidi is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 5.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 6.6K
- FRFrance≈1 in 21K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 214 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
abbr. of Sayyid; Mr. or descendant of the Prophet Muhammad
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sidi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Sidi | 43 |
| MA Morocco | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Sidi | 69 |
| FR France | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 1.4K | Sidi | 214 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 169K | — | Sidi | 80 |
| ES Spain | 562 | 1 in 89K | 562 | — | 28 |
| BE Belgium | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 7 | — | 21 |
| LY Libya | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Sidi | 9 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Sidi 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.
chefe, senhor; chief, master
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Arabic, master; lord.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, my lord; title/name form
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
master
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In tft, alternative form of side (“a sail”)
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)
- Sidi Fredj Halimib. 1876FRAlgerian rabbi (1876–1957)
- Sidi Talb. 1912UASoviet singer (1912-1983)
- Irán Eoryb. 1939ATnot in their usual nameIranian actress (1939–2002)
- Moshe Sidib. 1953ILD. Sc. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology 1982
- Ela Sidib. 1965PLIsraeli writer
- Mohamed Sidib. 1968FRFrench politician (Mayotte)
- Moussa Dembéléb. 1987BEnot in their usual nameBelgian association football player (born 1987)
- Sidi Fofanab. 1992FRFrench association football player
- Tesh Sidib. 1994ESSahrawi-Spanish computer scientist and politician
- Sidi Bouna Amarb. 1998MRMauritanian footballer (born 1998)
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 63 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.4K | #2,129 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 562 | #4,212 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 445 | #2,292 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 401 | #9,518 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 401 | #9,496 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 32 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 7 | #84,071 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Sidi mean, and where does it come from?
- abbr. of Sayyid; Mr. or descendant of the Prophet Muhammad Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- In which country does Sidi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.5 thousand people named Sidi in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sidi.
- How common is the name Sidi?
- In Spain, the national register counted 562 people named Sidi, about 1 in 89 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sidiThe 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, “Sidi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.