Saïb

Name: Saïb: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Saïb is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.

rarermore common

FRFrance≈1 in 91K(inferred from the name graph)
DZAlgeria≈1 in 17K
ZASouth Africa≈1 in 43K

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: 150 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Saib

Locally spelled Saib in FR France, ZA South Africa, DZ Algeria and 3 more.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Saïb 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.

Where Saïb is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
DZ Algeria	#655	≈2,500 est.	≈1 in 17K	listed	Saib	28
ZA South Africa	—	≈1,300 est.	≈1 in 43K	—	Saib	25
FR France	—	≈740 est.	≈1 in 91K	101	Saib	150
ID Indonesia	—	≈550 est.	≈1 in 485K	—	Saib	48
MA Morocco	—	≈510 est.	≈1 in 70K	—	Saib	26
SA Saudi Arabia	—	≈250 est.	≈1 in 136K	—	Saib	21
BR Brazil	—	175	1 in 1.2M	175	—	1

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 noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Saïb is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate name3 spellings in the group
Also written Sâib, Saib

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 1

Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Saïb have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Saïb in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saib.
How common is the name Saïb?: In Brazil, the national register counted 175 people named Saïb, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
How common is Saïb compared with other names?: In Algeria, Saïb is the 655th most common surname of 89,473 surnames 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/sa%C3%AFb

The 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 2026-10-10 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, “Saïb” — the 655th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)