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Syeda

#2,537 in 2025Girls' name

Liberal, generous, through سَيِّدَة

Syeda has been given to 1,859 babies in the U.S. since 1974. In 2025 it ranked #2,537 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 76 recorded.

Babies named Syeda, 2025

1 in 47,400

Syeda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Syeda: meaning, origin, and history

Liberal, generous, through سَيِّدَة

Arabic

What Syeda means

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

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Arabic سَيِّدَة (sayyida). * (female given name): From Urdu سیدہ, from Arabic سَيِّدَة (sayyida)

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Syeda (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Syeda is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Syeda comes through Arabic سَيِّدَة and Urdu سیدہ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include سَيِّدَة.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,859 girls were recorded with the name Syeda between 1974 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 76 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,411 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,218 in 2020 to #2,537 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,124 in 2015 to #2,537 in 2025.

How common is Syeda?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 47,400
70 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 23,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,537
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
32,828 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Syeda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 5001%

Put another way: gather 32,828 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Syeda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Syedas were born

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

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,859
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.0% of all recorded uses (557).

Is Syeda 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
−126
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+681
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+587
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.30×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
92.1%
Peak was 2024 (76)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,411
2024

Spellings of Syeda

Syeda is not the most common spelling — Lynda is, with 35.1% against Syeda's 0.84%.

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 Syeda is used

Across 2016–2025, Syeda was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 5,556 girls, against 1 in 17,639 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

118 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 5,556
  2. 2Illinois1 in 8,333
  3. 3Michigan1 in 14,286
  4. 4Texas1 in 16,667
  5. 5Virginia1 in 33,333
  6. 6California1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Syeda around the world

Where Syeda 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
    #197
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1987–2025
    #387
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2003–2025
    #443
    in 2025
  • France
    2013–2025
    #6,957
    in 2025
  • Norway
    2023–2025
    #364
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #501
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2012–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Syeda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,537
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 681
Best rank ever
#2,411
2024
Peak year
2024
76 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,859
Count in 2025
70

Names similar to Syeda

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

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Sibling names for Syeda

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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