Saif

boys:

2.2k births since 1978

#2666 (42nd percentile)

overall:

2.2k births since 1978

#5558 (28th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Saif is the #5,558 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,237 recorded births since 1978. This represents the 28.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,666 (41.8% percentile) for all time with 2,237 births since 1978.

Saif first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1978 (first recorded for boys in 1978). Birth data for Saif is available in 44 out of the 46 years between 1978 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

For boys, Saif reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 11.4% percentile (ranked #807) with 60 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 60 births per million (ranked 11.4% percentile). Despite a peak around 2019, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Saif is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #807 (11.4% percentile) with 60 births per million.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Saif".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
2,237
Peak Births
109
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
1978
Peak Percentile
11.4%
Current Percentile
11.4%
Peak Rank
#807
Current Rank
#807
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Saif

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Saif. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 59.6% confident that Saif is pronounced as saif, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sayf, at 27.7% confidence, with 1 syllables.

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59.6%
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27.7%
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12.8%
saif (1 syllable)
Verified
59.6% confidence
S AY1 F
sayf (1 syllable)
27.7% confidence
S EY1 F
sah-EEF (2 syllables)
Verified
12.8% confidence
S AA2 IY1 F

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like S AY1 F) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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