Sheikh — #4960 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Sheikh

The Social Security Administration has registered 405 babies named Sheikh between 1991 and 2024, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Sheikh currently holds the #4960 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 20 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sheikh performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 127 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Sheikh shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 121 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Sheikh in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sheikh in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 405 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.