Saíd

given name · Latin script

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

Saíd is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic سَعِيد (saʕīd).

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 49K
  • BRBrazil1 in 162K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

15,813 people

Sources
197 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Said in ES Spain, US United States, BR Brazil.

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).

Sources 6

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

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Saíd 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 Saíd is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#40815,8131 in 3.2K16KSaid95
US United States—6,7291 in 49K7.4KSaid197
SE Sweden—5,2431 in 1.9K5.2K—23
EC Ecuador—3,2201 in 5.3K3.2K—35
BR Brazil—1,3031 in 162K1.3KSaid113
NO Norway—7121 in 7.7K2K—14
FI Finland—5741 in 9.7K765—4

15,813 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INEC — civil registry names; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

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

  • a separate name21 spellings in the group

    Also written Sāid, Said, Saìd, Säid, Saîd

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Said bin Ahmad Al Busaidi, b. 1800Said Nursî, b. 1877Sultan-Galiev, b. 1892Said Mohamed Jaffar, b. 1918Said saleh, b. 1940Saïd Ben Saïd, b. 1966Said Abdullahi Mohamed, b. 1967Rami Malek, b. 1981Said Martínez, b. 1991Said Ahmed Said, b. 1993

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

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

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Saíd 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 Saíd a male or female name?
Saíd 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 Saíd have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Saíd, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled said.
Where is Saíd most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Saíd is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 1.9 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Saíd?
In Spain, the national register counted 15,813 people named Saíd, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
How common is Saíd compared with other names?
In Spain, Saíd is the 408th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.

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The 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, “Saíd” — the 408th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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