Sayed

given name · English · Latin script

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

Sayed is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Pakistan it is the 9th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Bangla, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Alternative spelling of Sayyid.

rarermore common
  • BDBangladesh1 in 270◐
  • PKPakistan1 in 419
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 1.1K

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

≈22K ●

across 7 countries

#830 ●

of 16M given names

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
338 ●

1.0M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 8.3K ◐

Norway

Spellings & scripts●

SyedLatin · English●848K records
সৈয়দBengali · Bangla●897 records
ไซเอ็ดThai · Thai●37 records
사이이드Hangul · Korean●0 records

Locally spelled Syed in IN India, BD Bangladesh, PK Pakistan and 23 more.

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●

Alternative spelling of Sayyid.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Sayed is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#2471,305,128557K rec.—40KSyed234
BD Bangladesh#171,051,96215K rec.—listedSyed151
PK Pakistan#9446,65630K rec.—listedSyed164
MY Malaysia#7938,40354K rec.——Syed98
GB United Kingdom#56734,43023K rec.—15Syed155
US United States—19,887264K rec.1 in 17K20KSyed338
AU Australia#80312,73718K rec.—6Syed159
SA Saudi Arabia#8411,6043.4K rec.——Syed118
CA Canada#77010,85812K rec.—18Syed135
AE United Arab Emirates#466,6976.2K rec.——Syed145
DE Germany—2,1252.9K rec.—1Syed104
SG Singapore#3491,6154.6K rec.——Syed88

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

Languages●

  • English159K25%
  • Bangla156K25%
  • Hindi130K21%
  • Arabic60K9%
  • 43K7%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English159,17725%
Bangla155,91625%
Hindi129,85621%
Arabic59,6539%
42,9637%

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◐

Sayed is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name190K records spelled Sayed36 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, United States, Australia, India

    Languages: English, German, Danish

    Also written Śàÿéd, Šäÿëd, Saÿed, Śayed, Śàÿęd

  • a separate given name53K records spelled Sayed3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Śayed, ُsayed

  • Spanish given name12K records spelled Sayed60 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, India

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Śáýéd, Säÿëd, Šậŷêd, Säyed, Şąyed

  • French given name11K records spelled Sayed11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Afghanistan

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Säýèd, Såýéd, Säÿëd, Sáyëd, Sàyéd

  • Indonesian given name8.4K records spelled Sayed4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Afghanistan

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Säyëd, Såyëd

  • Hindi given name4.3K records spelled Sayed92 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hindi, Arabic, English

    Also written Sayyad, Saiyyad, Saiyed, Sayyada, Saiyeda

53 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●

Sayed is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Arabic; the Lord, the master

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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●

05001K1.5K1900192019401960198020001.3K · 1991

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Sayed in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2017
Yearrecords
18991
19041
19164
19171
191812
19195
192013
19215
19227
192312
192412
192515
192617
192714
192816
192934
193048
193139
193255
193369
193464
193586
193677
1937116
1938112
1939152
1940189
1941162
1942227
1943184
1944226
1945278
1946263
1947299
1948257
1949276
1950363
1951329
1952393
1953325
1954459
1955525
1956463
1957474
1958545
1959684
1960545
1961567
1962706
1963735
1964688
1965761
1966677
1967815
1968773
1969767
1970828
1971798
1972921
1973882
1974920
1975969
1976967
1977881
1978974
1979894
1980808
19811,057
19821,227
19831,178
19841,215
19851,201
19861,034
19871,292
19881,159
19891,310
19901,292
19911,324
19921,287
19931,238
19941,070
1995787
1996539
1997564
1998325
199957
20003
20011
20022
20071
2008137
20099
201081
201167
201241
201360
2014308
2015133
20161
20171

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 100 years between 1899–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

160017001800190020002100Sayed Borhan, b. 1624Sayed Yusuf, b. 1895S. Ichtiaque Rasool, b. 1930Sayed Al Wakil, b. 1953Sayed Kashua, b. 1975Sadat Mansoor Naderi, b. 1977Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, b. 1984Sam Morsy, b. 1991Omar El Sawy, b. 2004Sayed Abu Farchi, b. 2006

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 67 sources across 36 countries.

Official registers attesting Sayed
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—6.2K#1,355
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.7K#11,211
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.5K#6,272
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.5K#18,301
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.2K#20,111
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.2K#1,497
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020553—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—552#2,353
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—379#2,390
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025246—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—244#773
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—215#34,640

Reference works 5

  • 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)
  • 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 · 612 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sayed?
We estimate roughly 22 thousand people bear Sayed (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Sayed have the most bearers?
Sayed is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled syed.
How common is Sayed compared with other names?
In India, Sayed is the 247th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Sayed a male or female name?
Sayed 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 Sayed mean?
Recorded meaning: Alternative spelling of Sayyid.
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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, “Sayed” — the 247th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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