Seyid
given name · Turkish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Seyid is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. In Afghanistan it is the 62nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Arabic, written in the Latin script.
- AFAfghanistan1 in 1.7K◐
- TRTürkiye1 in 57K
- AZAzerbaijan1 in 17K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈45 ●
- Sources
- 29 ●
- 1 in 652K ◐
across 4 countries
17K records
Official registry-verified
Denmark
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Şeyid in TM Turkmenistan.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | — | 9,468 | 12K rec. | — | — | Seyid | 29 |
| AF Afghanistan | #62 | 1,286 | 1.3K rec. | — | — | Seyid | 3 |
| SY Syria | — | 657 | 3.3K rec. | — | — | Seyid | 5 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | 264 | 179 rec. | — | 38 | Seyid | 17 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | 213 | 3 rec. | — | — | Seyid | 2 |
| IR Iran | — | 82 | 82 rec. | — | — | Seyid | 7 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 48 | 37 rec. | — | — | Seyid | 7 |
| IQ Iraq | — | 25 | 37 rec. | — | — | Seyid | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 24 | 25 rec. | 1 in 720K | 24 | Seyid | 3 |
| TM Turkmenistan | — | 16 | 35 rec. | — | — | Şeyid | 2 |
| ET Ethiopia | — | 16 | 25 rec. | — | — | Seyid | 2 |
| BE Belgium | — | 14 | 14 rec. | — | — | Seyid | 2 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Turkish11K69%
- Arabic9256%
- Amharic6424%
- Azerbaijani4573%
- German3792%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Turkish | 10,559 | 69% |
| Arabic | 925 | 6% |
| Amharic | 642 | 4% |
| Azerbaijani | 457 | 3% |
| German | 379 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Sayyid Ajjal Shams al-Din Omarb. 1211UZnot in their usual nameGovernor of Yunnan (1211-1279)
- Sayyid Mumtaz Alib. 1860INnot in their usual nameIndian author and publisher
- Seyid Chouchinskib. 1889AZAzerbaijani singer (1889–1965)
- Sayyid Darwishb. 1892EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian musician and composer (1892–1923)
- Sayyid Qutbb. 1906EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian political theorist and revolutionary (1906–1966)
- Sayed Mareib. 1913EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian politician and minister
- Sayid Abdulloh Nurib. 1947TJnot in their usual nameTajikistani politician (1947–2006)
- Mojtaba Khameneib. 1969IRnot in their usual name3rd Supreme Dictator of Iran since 2026
- Sayyid El Alamib. 1998FRnot in their usual nameFrench & Moroccan actor
- Sayyid Ali BeheshtiAFnot in their usual nameAfghan politician
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 20 sources across 10 countries.
Reference works 3
- 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 · 32 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Seyid?
- We estimate roughly 45 people bear Seyid (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Seyid have the most bearers?
- Seyid is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled seyid.
- How common is Seyid compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Seyid is the 62nd most common given name of 22,039 given names recorded there.
- Is Seyid a male or female name?
- Seyid 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
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, “Seyid” — the 62nd most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.