Seyyed

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

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◐

Seyyed is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name1.1K records spelled Seyyed2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Iran, United States, India, Canada

  Also written Seyyèd

• Korean given name41 records spelled Seyyed2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Iran, South Korea

  Also written ُseyyed

36 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●

Seyyed 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, Alternative form of Sayyid.

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

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●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Seyyed Gol Zohurib. 1960AFbadminton administrator and executive

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 · 54 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Seyyed?

We estimate roughly 103 people bear Seyyed (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.

In which country does Seyyed have the most bearers?

Seyyed is most frequently recorded in Iran, where it is most often spelled seyyed.

How common is Seyyed compared with other names?

In Afghanistan, Seyyed is the 128th most common given name of 22,039 given names recorded there.

Is Seyyed a male or female name?

Seyyed 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.