MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sahid mean?
Arabic shahid, written شاهد, means a witness and underlies Shahid. The related name Shaheed, written شهيد, also denotes a witness and conventionally a martyr, giving Sahid two established possibilities.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शाहिद
Conventional spelling
Arabic
شاهد
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
साहिद
18,332 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
Devanagari
सहीद
7,312 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sahid in Indian usage
9,886 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (96.6%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 335 records (3.4%).
- Recorded as male: 9,551 records (96.6%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1950s | 520 |
| 1960s | 1,173 |
| 1970s | 2,086 |
| 1980s | 3,370 |
| 1990s | 2,417 |
| Other decades | 320 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 3,977 |
| Assam | 1,560 |
| Bihar | 898 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 564 |
| Jharkhand | 457 |
| Tripura | 414 |
| Delhi | 391 |
| Kerala | 354 |
| Maharashtra | 332 |
| Haryana | 276 |
| Rajasthan | 245 |
| Uttarakhand | 117 |
| Other states | 301 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001