al-Sayyid
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
al-Sayyid is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 5.1M(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 273M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1M (inferred from the name graph)
≈21 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Alsayyid in US United States, SY Syria, SA Saudi Arabia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)al-Sayyid counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | al-Sayyid | 16 |
| US United States | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 273M | Alsayyid | 10 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | — | al-Sayyid | 3 |
| SY Syria | — | — | Alsayyid | 7 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | — | Alsayyid | 11 |
| LB Lebanon | — | — | al-Sayyid | 3 |
| IQ Iraq | — | — | al-Sayyid | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hamdi al-Sayyidb. 1930EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian politician (1930–2024)
- Akhtar Payamib. 1931INnot in their usual nameIndian writer
- Mahmoud al-Sayyedb. 1939SYnot in their usual nameSyrian linguist
- ʿbd al-lh al-sīdb. 1941SYnot in their usual nameSyrian sculptor
- Osama El-Sayedb. 1957EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian chef and television personality
- Ahmad Charamposhnot in their usual nameIndian Sufi saint
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
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is al-Sayyid a male or female name?
- al-Sayyid 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.
- In which country does al-Sayyid have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 people named al-Sayyid in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled al-Sayyid.
- How common is the name al-Sayyid?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 people in Egypt have al-Sayyid as their first given name, about 1 in 5.1 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about al-Sayyid?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/al-sayyidThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “al-Sayyid”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.