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Saud

#6,384 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Su'ud

Saud has been given to 511 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #6,384 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Saud, 2025

1 in 237,000

Saud over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Saud: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Su'ud

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Saud means

Saud is a alternate transcription of Su'ud.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Su'ud.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 511 boys were recorded with the name Saud between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 2016; its best national rank was #3,048 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,416 in 2020 to #6,384 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,247 in 2015 to #6,384 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.

How common is Saud?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,384
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Saud 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Saud. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sauds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Saud was born before 2013 — so the typical Saud is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
51.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
511
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 51.5% of all recorded uses (263).

Is Saud 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
+805
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−968
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,137
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.78×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.9%
Peak was 2016 (39)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,048
2016

Spellings of Saud

Saud is not the most common spelling — Paul is, with 74.7% against Saud's 0.03%.

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 Saud is used

Across 1910–2025, Saud was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,119,577 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Ohio1 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. Saud has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Saud around the world

Where Saud 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
    1997–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2019
    #2,583
    in 2019

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Saud by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,384
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 968
Best rank ever
#3,048
2016
Peak year
2016
39 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
511
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Saud

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

SauloDaudSauravSaulRashaudAhmaudSaunSaundersMaudSaurabhSauelAmaudSaugatRenaudClaudSauyerSauryaSaumilAudAshaudSauliusSaurishSaundraSaumya

Sibling names for Saud

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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