Sinbad as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Sinbad

What is the meaning of the name Sinbad ?

The baby name Sinbad is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced SIN-bad (English: /ˈsɪn.bæd/; Arabic/Persian: سندباد ‎/sindˈbɑːd/).

Sinbad is Arabic, Persian in Origin.

Sinbad is the Anglicized form of Arabic Sindbād (سندباد), itself from Persian Sindbād. The first element Sind refers to Sindh/Indus; the second -bād likely the Persian noun bād “wind.” Scholars thus read the name as “wind of Sindh/Indus” or more loosely “traveler borne by the Indus winds”; other folk etymologies render it “man of Sindh.” The exact sense remains debated but maritime overtones are clear.

The name belongs to the legendary mariner of the One Thousand and One Nights, set in Abbasid Baghdad. It entered European languages in the early 18th century through Antoine Galland’s translation, fixing the English spelling Sinbad; German and Turkish usually prefer Sindbad. As a given name, it is rare and largely literary or stage-based (e.g., the American comedian Sinbad). Variant transliterations include Sindbad, Sindibad, and Sindbad al-Bahri (“the Sailor”).