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Sayed

#4,366 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Sayyid

Sayed has been given to 688 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #4,366 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 42 recorded.

Babies named Sayed, 2025

1 in 138,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sayed: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Sayyid

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sayed means

Sayed is a alternate transcription of Sayyid.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Sayed → Sayyid. The family’s meaning is “Master, Lord, the nobleman”, recorded in English with the source elements sayyid.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sayyid.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 688 boys were recorded with the name Sayed between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 42 in 2022; its best national rank was #2,989 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,999 in 2020 to #4,366 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,695 in 2015 to #4,366 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 Sayed?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 71,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,366
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sayed 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sayed. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sayeds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sayed was born before 2009 — so the typical Sayed is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
26.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
688
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Choose a decade

2010s — 26.5% of all recorded uses (182).

Is Sayed 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
−404
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+633
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,329
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.1%
Peak was 2022 (42)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,989
2022

Spellings of Sayed

Sayed is not the most common spelling — Jared is, with 59.0% against Sayed's 0.20%.

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 Sayed is used

Across 1910–2025, Sayed was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 226,907 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 —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Sayed has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sayed around the world

Where Sayed 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
    #771
    in 2025
  • France
    2005–2025
    #1,646
    in 2025
  • Norway
    2023–2024
    #435
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #886
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1988–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Sayed by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,366
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 633
Best rank ever
#2,989
2022
Peak year
2022
42 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
688
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Sayed

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

SayerSayanSayidSaylorSaygeSayvonZayedSayyidSayvionSayfSayntSayreSaylerSaydenLoyedSayeedSayonSayirSyedSeyedSaylenSaydFloyedRayed

Sibling names for Sayed

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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