Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Seyed is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Oman it is the most common given name. It appears chiefly in Persian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Alternative spelling of Sayyid.
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.
Locally spelled Saidin IN India, DZ Algeria, FR France and 14 more, Saeedin PK Pakistan, EG Egypt, GB United Kingdom and 3 more, Saifin BD Bangladesh, AE United Arab Emirates, IQ Iraq and Саидin RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.
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.
Relations come from the etymology graph; the language, country and size beside each name are how that name is actually used in the corpus. Click any name to open it.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
Persian29K34%
English21K25%
Arabic5.3K6%
4.3K5%
Turkish3K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
Name
Records
Note
Persian
29,031
34%
English
21,421
25%
Arabic
5,257
6%
4,283
5%
Turkish
3,021
4%
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◐
Seyed 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 name5.9K records spelled Seyed3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Iran, United States, India, Canada
Also written ُSeyed
French given name2.5K records spelled Seyed3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, Iran, Belgium, United States
Also written Séyed
Bangla given name640 records spelled Seyed5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Iran, India, Türkiye
Languages: Bangla, Odia
Also written ସୟଦ, ସୟଦ୍
Amharic given name541 records spelled Seyed3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Iran, India, Ethiopia, United States
Also written ሰየድ, ሰዬድ
43 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●
Seyed 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 Swedish, Seyed (Sayed) är ett arabiskt namn som innehåller en titel med betydelsen ’herr, herre, härskare’.
as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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●
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Seyed in Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01), Canada, 1991–2023
Year
records
1991
6
1993
7
1994
5
1995
8
1997
5
1998
9
2000
6
2001
5
2002
6
2003
10
2004
14
2005
7
2006
12
2007
13
2008
7
2009
12
2010
8
2011
11
2012
14
2013
9
2014
15
2015
9
2016
10
2017
11
2018
6
2019
10
2020
9
2022
7
2023
6
CAStatistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) — 29 years between 1991–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
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).
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Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 306 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
How common is the name Seyed?
We estimate roughly 50 thousand people bear Seyed (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Seyed have the most bearers?
Seyed is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled said.
How common is Seyed compared with other names?
In Oman, Seyed is the most common given name of 5,236 given names recorded there.
Is Seyed a male or female name?
Seyed 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.
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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 pageMondonomo, “Seyed” — the most common given name in Oman. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.