Saeed
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Arabic: happy, lucky, blissful, fortunate. a 4. dusuy Gad pgied 455 YI Guas als Y ol, "On the day when it comes no soul will speak except by His permission, some among them
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɑˈid/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Saeed is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Oman it is the most common given name.
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 389(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 937
- OMOman≈1 in 140as Said
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Saeed itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 324 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 389 (inferred from the name graph)
≈250,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Said in US United States, MA Morocco, OM Oman and 3 more.
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(measured from records)
happy, lucky, blissful, fortunate. a 4. dusuy Gad pgied 455 YI Guas als Y ol, "On the day when it comes no soul will speak except by His permission, some among them
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Saeed is read(measured from records)
Saeed is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Urdu36%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Saeed in Urdu.
- Arabic34%
happy, lucky, blissful, fortunate. a 4. dusuy Gad pgied 455 YI Guas als Y ol, "On the day when it comes no soul will speak except by His permission, some among them
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
fortunate, auspicious, venerable, dignified, happy, lucky
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
happy, fortunate
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- English7.9%
Alternative spelling of Said.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Saeed 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #528 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 937 | listed | Saeed | 159 |
| MA Morocco | #7 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 158 | listed | Said | 144 |
| TZ Tanzania | #24 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 349 | 1 | Said | 72 |
| AF Afghanistan | #12 | ≈95,000 est. | ≈1 in 384 | 1 | Said | 42 |
| DZ Algeria | #15 | ≈87,000 est. | ≈1 in 497 | #9 | Said | 84 |
| OM Oman | #1 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 140 | — | Said | 108 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #14 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 389 | — | Saeed | 181 |
| US United States | — | 20,064as Syed | 1 in 17K | 20K | Said | 303 |
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.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
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)
- Amin Saeedb. 1891SYSyrian journalist and historian
- Mahmoud Saeedb. 1939IQIraqi-American writer
- Shahid Saeedb. 1966PKPakistani cricketer
- Hassan Saeedb. 1970MYMaldivian lawyer and politician
- Khaled Mohamed Saeedb. 1982EGEgyptian who died due to police brutality (1982-2010)
- Farhan Saeedb. 1984PKPakistani actor, singer
- Sanam Saeedb. 1985PKPakistani actress, singer and model
- Mohammed Saeidb. 1990SEnot in their usual nameSwedish footballer
- Mimi Keeneb. 1998GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress
- Abdullah SaeedPKPakistani general
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 73 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.7K | #5,097 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.9K | #4,638 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.6K | #9,144 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.2K | #13,019 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 48 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 17 | #4,638 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Saeed mean, and where does it come from?
- happy, lucky, blissful, fortunate. a 4. dusuy Gad pgied 455 YI Guas als Y ol, "On the day when it comes no soul will speak except by His permission, some among them Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Saeed?
- A machine transcription gives /sɑˈid/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- In which country does Saeed have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 249 thousand people named Saeed in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saeed.
- How common is the name Saeed?
- In the United States, the national register counted 20,064 people named Syed in 2020, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Saeed compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Saeed is the 528th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saeedThe 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, “Saeed” — the 528th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.