Sayid
given name · Latin script
Meaning: My deeds have
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries
/sˈajid/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Sayid is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 6.3Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 30K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 130Kfew records
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)My deeds have
Cited for this meaning 1
- The African book of names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sayid 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 30K | listed | Sayid | 96 |
| AF Afghanistan | #420 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Sayid | 7 |
| IN India | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 369K | 48 | Sayid | 18 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 150K | — | Sayid | 31 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 728K | listed | Sayid | 9 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Sayid | 16 |
| US United States | — | 231 | 1 in 1.4M | 230 | Sayid | 75 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Sayid | 14 |
| SE Sweden | — | 71 | 1 in 144K | 71 | — | 7 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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).
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)38 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 48 | #45,405 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 42 | #5,424 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 32 | #17,885 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Sayid mean, and where does it come from?
- My deeds have Recorded by The African book of names.
- How do you pronounce Sayid?
- It depends on the language: in Indonesian /sˈajid/; in Turkish /sajˈɪd/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Sayid a male or female name?
- Sayid is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Sayid have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.5 thousand people named Sayid in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sayid.
- How common is the name Sayid?
- In the United States, the national register counted 231 people named Sayid in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Sayid compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Sayid is the 420th most common given name of 21,469 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/sayidThe 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, “Sayid” — the 420th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.