Saidi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ruler, master
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 35 countries
/sɑiɗi/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Saidi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country. In Tunisia it is the 16th most common surname.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 240(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 480
- MAMorocco≈1 in 1.4K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 271 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 238 (inferred from the name graph)
≈290,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)ruler, master
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Saidi is found
(measured from records)Saidi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #146 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 238 | 7 | Saidi | 21 |
| DZ Algeria | #24 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Saidi | 51 |
| MA Morocco | #34 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Saidi | 80 |
| TN Tunisia | #16 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 480 | — | Saidi | 58 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Saidi | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,231 | 1 in 15K | 3.2K | Saidi | 41 |
| OM Oman | #124 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Saidi | 39 |
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: INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)Saidi is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
happy
as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of 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)- Ali Jaberb. 1954SAnot in their usual nameformer Imam of Masjid al-Haram (1954–2005)
- Karim Saidib. 1973FRFrench actor
- Karim Saidib. 1983TNTunisian association football 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)63 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 35 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Saidi?
- In Swahili /sɑiɗi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Saidi mean, and where does it come from?
- ruler, master Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Saidi?
- Mondonomo estimates about 288 thousand people named Saidi in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saidi. After it come Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Afghanistan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Saidi?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,231 people named Saidi, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Saidi compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Saidi is the 146th most common surname of 112,969 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Saidi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saidiThe 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, “Saidi” — the 146th most common surname in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.