Sayad
given name · Latin script
Meaning: abbrev. of Sayyid; descendant of the Prophet Muhammad
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈsaɪæd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sayad is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 50K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 88K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
abbrev. of Sayyid; descendant of the Prophet Muhammad
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sayad 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.
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 — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; the dz-kaggle-names register. 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)
Sayad is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, part of something that touches the surface of another
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In poz-wmp-pro, to slice
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)
- Abdelmalek Sayadb. 1933FRFrench sociologist and philosopher (1933-1998)
- Parviz Sayyadb. 1939IRnot in their usual nameIranian Actor , Film Director
- Seufyann Sayadb. 1979FRFrench handball player
- Nazem SayadLBLebanese footballer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 60 | #39,308 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 60 | #39,093 |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Sayad mean, and where does it come from?
- abbrev. of Sayyid; descendant of the Prophet Muhammad Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Sayad?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsaɪæd/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Sayad a male or female name?
- Sayad is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Sayad have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Sayad in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sayad.
- How common is the name Sayad?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 15 people named Sayad in 2025, about 1 in 50 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sayadThe 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, “Sayad”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.