Saud

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Saut in PH Philippines and Sayed in TH Thailand.

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●

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Saud is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name12K records spelled Saud2 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Saúd

• Portuguese given name1.6K records spelled Saud2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, India, Philippines

  Also written Saúd

• French surname1.3K records spelled Saud8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Belgium

  Also written Saut, Saüt, Sàùd, Sàud, Saúd

• Turkish given name805 records spelled Saud4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Iraq, Syria, India

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen

  Also written Şaud

51 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●

Saud is also recorded in 5 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, pious, auspicious, prosperous

  as a name·A Dictionary of Muslim Names

• In English, royal family, Saudi Arabia

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In Norwegian Nynorsk, alternative form of sau (“sheep”)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Iloko, a barangay of Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte, Philippines

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In phi-pro, prepare the warp threads in weaving

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 75 years between 1923–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Saud Ib. 1640SASaudi Emir, 1640-1726
• Saud al-Kabeerb. 1748SAruler of the Emirate of Diriyah from 1803 to 1814
• Saud II. ibn Faisalb. 1850SARuler of Second Saudi State in 1871 and from 1873 to 1875
• Saud bin Abdul Azizb. 1902SAKing of Saudi Arabia from 1953 to 1964
• Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saudb. 1940SASaudi royal and foreign minister (1940–2015)
• Saud Al-mawlab. 1953LBLebanese writer, researcher and translator
• Saud Usmanib. 1958PKPakistani Urdu poet
• Saud Al-Shuraimb. 1966SAFormer Imam Saudi at Masjid al-Haram
• Saud Karirib. 1980SASaudi Arabian footballer
• Saud Shakeelb. 1995PKPakistani cricketer

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 394 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Saud?

We estimate roughly 4.5 thousand people bear Saud (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Saud have the most bearers?

Saud is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled saud.

How common is Saud compared with other names?

In Oman, Saud is the 24th most common given name of 5,236 given names recorded there.

Is Saud a male or female name?

Saud is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Saud mean?

Recorded meaning: A barangay of Badoc, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.