Saeed

surname · Urdu · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Saeed is a surname, most frequently recorded in India. In Oman it is the most common given name. It appears chiefly in Urdu and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: happy, lucky, blissful, fortunate.

rarermore common
  • OMOman1 in 48◐
  • DZAlgeria1 in 81
  • MAMorocco1 in 196

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈50K ●

across 6 countries

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
310 ●

1.5M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 3.2K ◐

Spain

Spellings & scripts●

SaidLatin · English●343K records
СаидCyrillic · Russian●73K records
สอดThai · Thai●2K records
ᲡაიდGeorgian · Georgian●400 records
সাঈদBengali · Bangla●276 records
ՍաիդArmenian · Armenian●0 records
세이드Hangul · Korean●0 records

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Said in IN India, DZ Algeria, FR France and 14 more, Saif in BD Bangladesh, AE United Arab Emirates, IQ Iraq, Саид in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and Seyed in IR Iran.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

happy, lucky, blissful, fortunate. a 4. dusuy Gad pgied 455 YI Guas als Y ol, "On the day when it comes no soul will speak except by His permission, some among them

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Saeed is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—313,999132K rec.—40KSaid161
DZ Algeria#7299,25221K rec.—#9Said75
PK Pakistan#99218,36921K rec.—listedSaeed137
BD Bangladesh#217137,4907.1K rec.——Saif97
TR Türkiye#709118,903151K rec.——Said57
RU Russia#33093,46667K rec.—#151Саид134
MA Morocco#678,24185K rec.—listedSaid127
EG Egypt#10075,36972K rec.—listedSaeed159
SY Syria#9140,67771K rec.——Said38
IR Iran—38,32934K rec.——Seyed95
GB United Kingdom#87929,41827K rec.—15Saeed120
SA Saudi Arabia#8123,05219K rec.—listedSaeed172

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Urdu159K35%
  • Arabic114K25%
  • Hindi43K9%
  • 41K9%
  • English28K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Urdu158,73435%
Arabic113,97325%
Hindi43,2879%
40,8439%
English28,1266%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Saeed is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname5.4K records spelled Saeed2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, United Kingdom

    Also written Sa'Eed

  • Norwegian Bokmål surname4.1K records spelled Saeed8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Säeěd, Sâéèd

  • Sinhala surname1.3K records spelled Saeed2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, India, United States, Nigeria

    Also written Sa'Eed

  • Polish surname1.3K records spelled Saeed3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United Kingdom, United States, Pakistan

    Also written Saëed, Såeěd

  • Macedonian surname1.2K records spelled Saeed11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, Nigeria, United States, Pakistan

    Languages: Macedonian, Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Sa'Eed, Ṧẫëëd, Šāeed, Śäeèd

56 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Saeed is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Arabic, fortunate, auspicious, venerable, dignified, happy, lucky

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • In English, Alternative spelling of Said.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Arabic, happy, fortunate

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

020406019701980199020002010202060 · 2011

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Saeed in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1968–2025
Yearrecords
19685
19695
197313
197415
197521
197612
197716
197821
197917
198035
198121
198216
198312
198413
198523
198619
198723
198822
198931
199033
199127
199239
199329
199436
199532
199636
199730
199834
199943
200038
200133
200231
200338
200450
200544
200648
200758
200834
200947
201056
201160
201243
201353
201455
201559
201644
201752
201855
201937
202043
202145
202236
202351
202441
202548

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 55 years between 1968–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Amin Saeed, b. 1891Mahmoud Saeed, b. 1939Shahid Saeed, b. 1966Hassan Saeed, b. 1970Khaled Mohamed Saeed, b. 1982Farhan Saeed, b. 1984Sanam Saeed, b. 1985Mohammed Saeid, b. 1990Mimi Keene, b. 1998

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 71 sources across 38 countries.

Official registers attesting Saeed
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020206.7K#5,097
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.9K#4,638
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.6K#9,144
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.2K#13,019
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.8K#1,099
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—942#1,228
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—900#5,971
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020526—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—524#2,432
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—478#8,320
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—478#8,305
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025471—

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 288 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Saeed?
We estimate roughly 50 thousand people bear Saeed (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Saeed have the most bearers?
Saeed is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled said.
How common is Saeed compared with other names?
In Oman, Saeed is the most common given name of 5,236 given names recorded there.
What does the name Saeed mean?
Recorded meaning: happy, lucky, blissful, fortunate.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Saeed” — the most common given name in Oman. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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