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Senad

Boys' name

Document, written credential, attestation, through سَنَد

Senad has been given to 36 babies in the U.S. since 1997. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1998, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Senad, 2009

1 in 764,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Senad: meaning, origin, and history

Document, written credential, attestation, through سَنَد

Arabic

What Senad means

Senad belongs to the name family reached through Senad → سَنَد. Its meaning is “document, written credential, attestation”.

Origin, language, and formation

Senad is used in Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Arabic.

Senad comes through Arabic سَنَد.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include سَنَد.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 36 boys were recorded with the name Senad between 1997 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1998; its best national rank was #7,422 in 1998.

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 Senad?

Senad had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,315 births
Among boys only
1 in 397,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,609 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Senad 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 2009 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 529,609 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Senad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Senads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Senad was born before 2000 — so the typical Senad is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
61.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
36
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 61.1% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Senad 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1998 (8)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,422
1998

Spellings of Senad

Senad is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 89.8% against Senad's <0.01%.

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.

Senad around the world

Where Senad 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.

  • France
    1973–2022
    #4,086
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1996–1996
    #540
    in 1996

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Senad by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,422
1998
Peak year
1998
8 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
36
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Senad

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

SenseiSennaSenanSenaySenenSenonSenderSenacaSenaSenaiNenadSenicaSentellSenSenovioSeneccaSenatorErnadHanadSengSennecaSenaidoSencereNinad

Sibling names for Senad

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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