Seyed
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Seyed 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. Recorded meaning: Alternative spelling of Sayyid.
- OMOman≈1 in 140as Said(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 158as Said
- TZTanzania≈1 in 349as 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 Seyed 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., as Said
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 and 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)
Alternative spelling of Sayyid.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Seyed 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Seyed is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Seyed (Sayed) är ett arabiskt namn som innehåller en titel med betydelsen ’herr, herre, härskare’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Seyed Mohyeddin Seghatoleslamb. 1960IRIranian architect
- Seyed Mehrdad Roknib. 1972IRIranian taekwondo practitioner
- Seyedb. 1994DEGerman rapper
- Seyed HaydarIranian calligrapher
- Seyed MohammadReza HashemianIRresearcher
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 43 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #9,984 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12 | #9,984 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 7 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Seyed mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative spelling of Sayyid. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Seyed a male or female name?
- Seyed 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 Seyed?
- In the etymology graph, Seyyid and Seyyit are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Seyed have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 249 thousand people named Saeed in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Seyed?
- In the United States, the national register counted 20,064 people named Syed in 2020, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Seyed compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Seyed is the 528th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Seyed?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/seyedThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Seyed” — the 528th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.