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Sayeh Sayeh — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SAH-yeh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Shadow (H.E. Sayeh poet)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "shadow (h.e. sayeh poet)".

Sayeh is from the Persian سایه (Sāyeh — shadow, shade). Sayeh is one of the Persian feminine names — central to traditional Persian poetic heritage. Notable bearer: H.E. subject of pan-Persian poetic-aesthetic heritage. Persian feminine name reflecting Persian literary heritage.

Shadow (H.E. Sayeh poet).

The name in its native script.

سایه
Transliteration
Sāyeh
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɑː.jɛ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sayeh stands.

Sayeh does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Sayehs before her.

Real people
H.E. Sayeh / Houshang Ebtehaj
Iranian poet + Sayeh Shadow pen name + pioneering 20th-c. Persian poetry + Siyāh-Mashq 1973 + pan-Iranian literary heritage.
1928 – 2022
In fiction
Sayeh
Persian shadow + Hafez + Rumi poetic heritage + Zell-Allah Islamic royal honorific.

Names connected to Sayeh.

The number behind Sayeh.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sayeh reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.