Saìd

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Saìd is a male 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: Borrowed from Arabic سَعِيد (saʕīd).

  • OMOman≈1 in 140(inferred from the name graph)
  • MAMorocco≈1 in 160
  • TZTanzania≈1 in 350

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 Saìd itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈250,000 named Saeed, est.

7 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
324 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 140 (inferred from the name graph)

Oman, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
SaeedLatin(measured from records)
СаидCyrillic(measured from records)
สอดThai(measured from records)
সাঈদBengali(measured from records)
ՍաիդArmenian(measured from records)
საიდGeorgian(measured from records)
사이드Hangul(measured from records)

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Said in MA Morocco, OM Oman, TZ Tanzania 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)

Borrowed from Arabic سَعِيد (saʕīd).

Cited for this meaning 6

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • Wiktionary
  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Saìd 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.

Where Saìd is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#528≈250,000 est.≈1 in 937listedSaeed159
MA Morocco#7≈220,000 est.≈1 in 158listedSaid144
TZ Tanzania#24≈170,000 est.≈1 in 3491Said72
AF Afghanistan#12≈95,000 est.≈1 in 3841Said42
DZ Algeria#15≈87,000 est.≈1 in 497register #9Said84
OM Oman#1≈33,000 est.≈1 in 140—Said108
AE United Arab Emirates#14≈26,000 est.≈1 in 389—Saeed181
ES Spain#69515,8131 in 3.2K16KSaid75

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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Saìd is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Spain, United States, Syria

    Also written Said, Saïd, Saîd, Śắĩd, Saíd

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Saìd under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Saìd mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Arabic سَعِيد (saʕīd). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 4 other sources.
Is Saìd a male or female name?
Saìd 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 Saìd 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 Saìd?
In Spain, the national register counted 15,813 people named Saìd, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
How common is Saìd compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Saìd is the 528th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.

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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, “Saìd” — the 528th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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