Sahiba
Sahib or Saheb is a term of address originating from Arabic. As a loanword, Sahib has passed into several languages, including Persian, Kurdish, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkmen, Tajik, Crimean Tatar, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Pashto, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Rohingya and Somali. During medieval times, it was used either as an official title or an honorific.
Meaning & Origin of Sahiba
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Sahib or Saheb is a term of address originating from Arabic. As a loanword, Sahib has passed into several languages, including Persian, Kurdish, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkmen, Tajik, Crimean Tatar, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Pashto, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Rohingya and Somali. During medieval times, it was used either as an official title or an honorific.
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The Story of Sahiba
Sahiba first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1992, with 5 babies given the name that year. Its peak popularity came in 2023, when 12 Sahibas were born — ranking #8,472 that year. As of 2026, Sahiba ranks #13,427 for baby girls with 6 births, with steady use. In total, more than 144 Sahibas have been born in the U.S. since records began in 1880, spanning the 1990s through the 2020s.
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About the name Sahiba
Sahiba is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1992 and has accumulated 144 births in the dataset. Sahiba's peak popularity came in 2023 when it ranked #8,472. Use the chart and map above to compare Sahiba's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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