All over the world, Speed (Speed 
, سبيد 
, スピード 
, and others...) is quite a rare primarily male, but scarcely feminine given name. The given name Speed is characteristic of Western Asia, particularly Qatar, where it is quite a rare boy's name, Saudi Arabia, where it is a rare largely masculine, but uncommonly female name, and United Arab Emirates, where it is a rare masculine name. In absolute terms, this name is the most popular in Indonesia, Nigeria, and Egypt. More prevalently, Speed is the last name as well as the forename.
Speed is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Speed Racer , the fictional character, Speed Racer; Speed Demon , the comics character; supervillain; Speed Queen , the fictional extraterrestrial supervillain; Speed , the fictional character in Marvel Comics and Speed Saunders , the DC Comics character, among other works.
| ray speed New Zealand association footballer (1914-1997), NZ (b. 1914) |
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| grant speed American western sculptor, US (b. 1930) |
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| stewart speed cricketer (1942-2020), NZ (b. 1942) |
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| lake speed American stock car racing driver, US (b. 1948) |
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| boone speed American photographer and rock climber, US (b. 1965) |
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| carleton d. speed, jr. researcher |
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| elliott speed college basketball player (1948–1949) Alabama |
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| anderson speed researcher (ORCID 0000-0001-9238-1696) |
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| sir robert william speed Peerage person ID=183207 |
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