Seįf
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Seįf is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Arabic سَيْف (sayf, “sword”). Doublet of xiphos.
- 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
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Seif in EG Egypt, TN Tunisia, 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(measured from records)
From Arabic سَيْف (sayf, “sword”). Doublet of xiphos.
Sources 3
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Seįf 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: 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Seįf mean, and where does it come from?
- From Arabic سَيْف (sayf, “sword”). Doublet of xiphos. Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Seįf a male or female name?
- Seįf 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.
- In which country does Seįf have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Seįf in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled seif.
- How common is the name Seįf?
- In the United States, the national register counted 413 people named Seįf in 2020, about 1 in 805 thousand residents.
- How common is Seįf compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Seįf is the 287th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/se%C4%AFfThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Seįf” — the 287th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.