Meaning and Origin of: Seif

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Arabic : Sword of religion
  • Arabic : Honest; honorable; noble

Boy name variations

Sharif
Shareef

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metonymic occupational name for a soap maker, from Middle High German seife, German Seife ‘soap’.
  • Arabic : from a personal name based on sayf ‘sword’. Saifullah ‘sword of Allah’ was a title of honor bestowed by the Prophet Muhammad on the military leader Khālid ibn-al-Walīd (see Khalid).