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Sheida Sheida — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ shay-DAH /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Passionate lover (Sufi)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "passionate lover (sufi)".

Sheida is from Shēydā.

Passionate lover (Sufi).

The name in its native script.

شیدا
Transliteration
Shēydā
Pronunciation
/ ʃeɪˈdɑː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sheida stands.

Sheida 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.

Sheidas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Hafez + Rumi + Layla-Majnun
Persian Sufi poetic heritage + Hafez 1325-1390 ghazals + Rumi 1207-1273 Mathnawi + Mevlevi Whirling Dervishes UNESCO 2008 + Nizami Layla wa Majnun 1188
Persian Sufi poetry

Names connected to Sheida.

The number behind Sheida.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sheida reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.