Sayed

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Alternative spelling of Sayyid

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

/ˈseɪd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sayed is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • EGEgypt≈1 in 811(inferred from the name graph)
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 181as Syed
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 438as Syed

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 Sayed 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)

≈1,300,000 named Syed, est.

#941 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
397 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 320 (inferred from the name graph)

Bahrain, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SyedLatin(measured from records)
সৈয়দBengali(measured from records)
ไซเอ็ดThai(measured from records)
사이이드Hangul(measured from records)

Locally spelled Syed in PK Pakistan, MY Malaysia, BD Bangladesh and 5 more.

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)

Sayed 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 Sayed is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#4≈1,300,000 est.≈1 in 181listedSyed197
BD Bangladesh#26≈340,000 est.≈1 in 472listedSyed158
EG Egypt—≈130,000 est.≈1 in 811listedSyed51
CN China—≈100,000 est.≈1 in 13K—Syed20
MY Malaysia#109≈51,000 est.≈1 in 645—Syed92
AE United Arab Emirates#16≈23,000 est.≈1 in 438—Syed157
BH Bahrain#47≈4,700 est.≈1 in 320—Syed49
SE Sweden—1,1991 in 8.5K1.2KSyed28

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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

Sayed is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname36 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Germany, India

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Śàÿéd, Šäÿëd, Śayed, Saÿed, Šáyêd

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written ُsayed, Śayed

  • Spanish surname60 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Brazil, India

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Säÿëd, Śáýéd, Šậŷêd, Śặŷěd, Şayëd

  • French surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

    Also written Säýèd, Ŝâýëd, Såyéd, Säÿëd, Såýéd

  • Malay surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, India, United States

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Såyëd, Säyëd

  • Hindi surname77 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: Hindi, English, Arabic

    Also written Sayyad, Saiyyad, Saiyed, Saiyeda, Seyeda

53 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Sayed 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 English, Arabic; the Lord, the master

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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)

1940196019802000Magdi Abdelghani, b. 1959Karim Sayed, b. 1975Supa Sayed, b. 1981Fida al-Sayed, b. 1985Ahmed Sayed, b. 1996Jonas Andersen Sayed, b. 1997Radwa Sayed, b. 1997Abu Sayed, b. 1999

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 70 sources across 36 countries.

Reference works 7

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 Sayed mean, and where does it come from?
Alternative spelling of Sayyid. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Sayed?
A machine transcription gives /ˈseɪd/ (IPA) for Arabic.
In which country does Sayed have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 million people named Syed in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Sayed?
In Sweden, the national register counted 1,199 people named Sayed, about 1 in 8.5 thousand residents.
How common is Sayed compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Sayed is the 4th most common given name of 77,659 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, “Sayed” — the 4th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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