سواد
given name · Arabic script
Meaning, in Persian: blackness (of hair, eyes, ink, etc.)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
سواد is a given name written in the Arabic script, with more bearers in Iran than in any other country.
- IRIran≈1 in 74K(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Iran (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Iran, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
blackness (of hair, eyes, ink, etc.)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How سواد is read(measured from records)
سواد is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Persian93%
blackness (of hair, eyes, ink, etc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic6.0%
blackness, black
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
سواد 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.
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)
سواد 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 ota, blackness, darkness, lightlessness, the state, property or quality of being black, or an area of darkness
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Urdu, taste, flavour
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
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 سواد mean, and where does it come from?
- blackness (of hair, eyes, ink, etc.) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is سواد a male or female name?
- سواد 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 سواد have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named سواد in Iran, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled سواد.
- How common is the name سواد?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1,200 people in Iran have سواد as their first given name, about 1 in 74 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AFThe 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, “سواد”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.