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Seyed

Boys' name

Liberal, generous, through سَيِّد

Seyed has been given to 122 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1982, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Seyed, 2001

1 in 535,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Seyed: meaning, origin, and history

Liberal, generous, through سَيِّد

Persian

What Seyed means

Seyed belongs to the name family reached through Seyed → سَيِّد. Its meaning is “liberal, generous”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Iranian Persian سید (seyyed), from Classical Persian سَیِّد (sayyid), from Arabic سَيِّد (sayyid).

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Origin, language, and formation

Seyed is used in English. Its origins include Persian.

Seyed comes through fa-cls سَیِّد and Arabic سَيِّد.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sayyid and سَيِّد.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Seyed is pronounced /seɪˈjɛd/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 122 boys were recorded with the name Seyed between 1979 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1982; its best national rank was #3,647 in 1982.

How common is Seyed?

Seyed had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2001
1 in 535,000
7 of 3,742,181 births
Among boys only
1 in 277,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2001
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
370,556 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Seyed 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 2001 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 370,556 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Seyed. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Seyeds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Seyed was born before 1987 — so the typical Seyed is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
55.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
122
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 55.7% of all recorded uses (68).

Is Seyed 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1982 (12)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,647
1982

Spellings of Seyed

Seyed is not the most common spelling — Reed is, with 52.8% against Seyed's 0.18%.

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.

Seyed around the world

Where Seyed 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
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2007
    #467
    in 2007
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,614
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1994–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Seyed 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
#3,647
1982
Peak year
1982
12 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
122
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Seyed

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

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Sibling names for Seyed

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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