Sahil
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sahil is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common surname. Recorded meaning: coast; seashore;.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 4.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 19K
- TRTürkiye1 in 119as Şahin
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sahil itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- #527 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 260 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
688,214 named Şahin, 2025
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Şahin in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, CY Cyprus, Shahin in BD Bangladesh and Сахил in AZ Azerbaijan.
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)
coast; seashore;
Sources 1
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sahil 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #7 | 688,214as Şahin | 1 in 119 | 688K | Şahin | 165 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | listed | Sahil | 50 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 2 | Sahil | 21 |
| BD Bangladesh | #120 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 19K | listed | Shahin | 99 |
| SY Syria | #343 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Şahin | 12 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 496 | Сахил | 24 |
| CY Cyprus | #36 | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Şahin | 15 |
688,214 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used surnames, 2025. 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: TÜİK NIP — most used surnames; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Sahil 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.
Costa
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Turkish, coast, shore
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tuw-sol, lightning
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Azerbaijani, coast
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cdo, huang Fk = *& a banner, a flag (i), (chinghuang)
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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)
- Sahil Khanb. 1976INIndian actor
- Sahil Kerimovb. 1979AZAzerbaijani association football player
- Sahil Shroffb. 1982INactor and model
- Syed Sahil Aghab. 1982INwriter and dastangoi performer
- Sahil Anandb. 1987INIndian film and television actor
- Sahil Sandhub. 1991CACanadian association football player
- Sahil Suhaimib. 1992SGSingaporean footballer
- Sahil Nayyarb. 1993CACanadian snooker player
- Sahil Sipanib. 1997INbadminton player
- Sahil Rajesh Jadhavb. 2001Indian compound archer (born 2001)
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 59 sources across 33 countries.
Reference works 5
- 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)
- 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 Sahil mean, and where does it come from?
- coast; seashore; Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- Is Sahil a male or female name?
- Sahil is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Sahil have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 688 thousand people named Şahin, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sahil?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 688,214 people named Şahin in 2025, about 1 in 119 residents.
- How common is Sahil compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Sahil is the 7th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sahil?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sahilThe 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, “Sahil” — the 7th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.