Sayeh is from the Persian سایه (Sāyeh — shadow, shade). A modern American baby name in the broader Persian-Iranian heritage aesthetic. Sayeh is one of the foundational Persian feminine names — central to traditional Persian poetic heritage. The foundational Persian sāyeh (shadow) is foundational central to foundational Persian poetic-aesthetic heritage spanning foundational Hafez + Rumi + Saadi + Khayyam + foundational sāyeh-e gisu (shadow of hair) + sāyeh-e mast (shadow of intoxication) + foundational Zell-Allah (foundational shadow of God — foundational Islamic royal honorific traditionally applied to foundational Caliphs + Ottoman Sultans + Shahs). Notable bearer: H.E. Sayeh (Houshang Ebtehaj 1928-2022) — foundational legendary foundational Iranian poet + foundational Sayeh (Shadow) foundational his pen name + foundational pioneering 20th-century Persian poetry + foundational Siyāh-Mashq (Black Practice) 1973 + foundational central to foundational pan-Iranian literary heritage + foundational subject of foundational documentaries; foundational also Sayeh Sodeyfi Iranian visual artist + foundational pioneering Iranian abstract painting. Foundational subject of foundational pan-Persian poetic-aesthetic heritage. Foundational Persian feminine name reflecting Persian literary heritage.
Featured throughout Persian heritage.
Sayeh reduces to three.