Saîd
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Saîd 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: Borrowed from Arabic سَعِيد (saʕīd).
- 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 Saîd 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 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).
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 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Saîd 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Saîd 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 Saîd a male or female name?
- Saîd 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 Saîd 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 Saîd?
- In Spain, the national register counted 15,813 people named Saîd, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Saîd compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Saîd is the 528th most common given name of 77,659 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/sa%C3%AEdThe 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, “Saîd” — the 528th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.