Såid
surname · Latin script
Såid is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Morocco than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic سَعِيد (saʕīd).
- OMOman≈1 in 150(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 160
- TZTanzania≈1 in 380
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 Såid 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.
- Morocco (inferred from the name graph)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 324 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 150 (inferred from the name graph)
≈250,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Oman, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Said in IN India, MA Morocco, OM Oman 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).
Cited for this meaning 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)Såid 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MA Morocco | #7 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 155 | listed | Said | 144 |
| TZ Tanzania | #24 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 383 | 1 | Said | 72 |
| PK Pakistan | #528 | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Saeed | 159 |
| DZ Algeria | #15 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 400 | register #9 | Said | 84 |
| IN India | — | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 40K | Said | 175 |
| OM Oman | #1 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 150 | — | Said | 108 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #14 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 369 | — | 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Såid 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.
- In which country does Såid have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 245 thousand people named Såid in Morocco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled said.
- How common is the name Såid?
- In Spain, the national register counted 15,813 people named Såid, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Såid compared with other names?
- In Morocco, Såid is the 7th most common given name of 41,711 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A5idThe 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, “Såid” — the 7th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.