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How popular is the name Sheikh?
Births per year, rank history and how many Sheikhs are alive today.
Sheikh (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 873rd in 2025 with 36 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2004, when 61 babies were given the name, the 443rd most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 1284 in 2018 before climbing back to the 873rd place it holds today. Numbers have been rising in recent years. Sheikh is one spelling of a name also recorded as Sheik; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Sheikh you are most likely to meet is around 21 years old - or else around 2: the name has two living generations. Half of all Sheikhs born in England and Wales are between 11 and 27, and there are at least 1,300 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Sheikh - on average, only one in every 234 such rooms contains a Sheikh.
How many babies are named Sheikh each year?
Includes all spellings: Sheikh, Sheik. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Sheikh spelling rank?
Where does the Sheik spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Sheikh most popular?
Sheikh peaked in 2004, when 73 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Sheikh?
At least 1,300 people named Sheikh in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Sheikh?
Most living Sheikhs are between 11 and 27; the most common age is about 21. There is a second cluster around 2.
Is Sheikh becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.