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Saeed

#2,711 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Said

Saeed has been given to 1,878 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #2,711 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 60 recorded.

Babies named Saeed, 2025

1 in 69,100

Saeed over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saeed: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Said

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Saeed means

Saeed is a alternate transcription of Said.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Saeed → Said → سَعِيد. The family’s meaning is “to be fortunate”, recorded in Arabic with the source elements سعد.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Said.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,878 boys were recorded with the name Saeed between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 60 in 2011; its best national rank was #1,688 in 1980.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,830 in 2020 to #2,711 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,269 in 2015 to #2,711 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Saeed?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 69,100
48 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 35,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,711
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
47,874 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saeed sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 47,874 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saeed. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Saeeds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saeed was born before 2006 — so the typical Saeed is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,878
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.4% of all recorded uses (514).

Is Saeed rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+327
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+119
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−442
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.81×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
80.0%
Peak was 2011 (60)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,688
1980

Spellings of Saeed

Saeed is not the most common spelling — Jared is, with 67.7% against Saeed's 0.62%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Saeed is used

Across 1910–2025, Saeed was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 162,062 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —
  8. 8New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Saeed has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Saeed around the world

Where Saeed ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,897
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1979–2011
    #648
    in 2011
  • France
    2024–2024
    #6,686
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2003–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Saeed by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,711
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 119
Best rank ever
#1,688
1980
Peak year
2011
60 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,878
Count in 2025
48

Names similar to Saeed

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Saeed

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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