Saud
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A barangay of Badoc, Ilocos Norte, Philippines
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Saud is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Saudi Arabia than in any other country, where it is the 53rd most common given name.
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 588(inferred from the name graph)
- OMOman≈1 in 635
- KWKuwait≈1 in 1.3K
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 Saud 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.
- Saudi Arabia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 588 (inferred from the name graph)
≈58,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Saudi Arabia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
A barangay of Badoc, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Saud is read(measured from records)
Saud 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.
- Arabic46%
fortunate, pious, auspicious, prosperous
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Hindi21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Saud in Hindi.
- English8.1%
A barangay of Badoc, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
royal family, Saudi Arabia
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Saud 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA Saudi Arabia | #53 | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 588 | listed | Saud | 182 |
| PK Pakistan | #955 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | 1 | Saud | 66 |
| OM Oman | #9 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 635 | — | Saud | 62 |
| US United States | — | 2,571as Sayed | 1 in 129K | 2.7K | Saud | 171 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 104K | listed | Saud | 66 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #402 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Saud | 90 |
| KW Kuwait | #123 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Saud | 96 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election. 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)
Saud is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Norwegian Nynorsk, alternative form of sau (“sheep”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Iloko, a barangay of Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte, Philippines
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In phi-pro, prepare the warp threads in weaving
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Saud Ib. 1640SASaudi Emir, 1640-1726
- Saud al-Kabeerb. 1748SAruler of the Emirate of Diriyah from 1803 to 1814
- Saud II. ibn Faisalb. 1850SARuler of Second Saudi State in 1871 and from 1873 to 1875
- Saud bin Abdul Azizb. 1902SAKing of Saudi Arabia from 1953 to 1964
- Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saudb. 1940SASaudi royal and foreign minister (1940–2015)
- Saud Al-mawlab. 1953LBLebanese writer, researcher and translator
- Saud Usmanib. 1958PKPakistani Urdu poet
- Saud Al-Shuraimb. 1966SAFormer Imam Saudi at Masjid al-Haram
- Saud Karirib. 1980SASaudi Arabian footballer
- Saud Shakeelb. 1995PKPakistani cricketer
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)
Attested in 45 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 559 | #18,431 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 26 | #18,431 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 14 | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Saud mean, and where does it come from?
- A barangay of Badoc, Ilocos Norte, Philippines. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Saud a male or female name?
- Saud 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 Saud have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 58 thousand people named Saud in Saudi Arabia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saud.
- How common is the name Saud?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,571 people named Sayed in 2020, about 1 in 129 thousand residents.
- How common is Saud compared with other names?
- In Saudi Arabia, Saud is the 53rd most common given name of 64,319 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/saudThe 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, “Saud” — the 53rd most common given name in Saudi Arabia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.