Said
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: simple past and past participle of say
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɛjd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Said is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Oman it is the most common given name.
- OMOman≈1 in 140(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 158
- TZTanzania≈1 in 349
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 Said 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 140 (inferred from the name graph)
≈250,000 named Saeed, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Oman, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Saeed in PK Pakistan, AE United Arab Emirates.
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)
simple past and past participle of say
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Said is read(measured from records)
Said is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- French19%
Du arabe Saʿīd, « heureux, chanceux ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
De l’arabe, « l’homme heureux ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- Arabic19%
rising, ascending
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Spanish9.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Said in Spanish.
- English8.2%
simple past and past participle of say
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Turkish7.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Said in Turkish.
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)
Said 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 |
| ES Spain | #695 | 15,813 | 1 in 3.2K | 16K | Said | 75 |
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: INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Said is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Said (m.fl. former) är ett arabiskt namn med betydelsen ’lycklig’. Jfr → Saad.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, männl. Vom. arabischen Ursprungs (arab. sa ‘id »glücklich« zu arab. sa Tda »glück lich sein«). Türk. Form: Sait.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Said al-Andalusib. 1029ESArab qadi of Toledo in Muslim Spain (1029–1070)
- Said bin Ahmad Al Busaidib. 1800OMImam of Oman
- Said Nursîb. 1877TRTurkish Sunni Muslim theologian of Kurdish origin (1876-1960)
- Sultan-Galievb. 1892RUnot in their usual nameSoviet politician (1892-1940)
- Said Mohamed Jaffarb. 1918KMPresident of Comoros (1918-1993)
- Said salehb. 1940EGEgyptian actor (1940–2014)
- Saïd Ben Saïdb. 1966TNFrench-Tunisian film producer
- Said Abdullahi Mohamedb. 1967SOPresident of Puntland since 2019
- Rami Malekb. 1981USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (born 1981)
- Said Ahmed Saidb. 1993GHGhanaian footballer
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 122 sources across 60 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 16K | #414 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 14K | #204 |
Reference works 12
- 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
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- 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 Said mean, and where does it come from?
- simple past and past participle of say Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Said?
- A machine transcription gives /sɛjd/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Said have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 249 thousand people named Saeed in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- Is Said a male or female name?
- Said 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.
- What are other forms of the name Said?
- In the etymology graph, Seydou, Seyde and Sayde are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Said?
- In Spain, the national register counted 15,813 people named Said, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Said compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Said is the 528th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saidThe 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, “Said” — the 528th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.