Saad
Saad was given to 59 boys in 2025, #2,353 among boys’ names; 2,476 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,420 Americans named Saad and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 10 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Saad by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Saad mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Saad is “a male given name from Arabic.”
From Arabic سَعْد (saʕd).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Saad?
#2,353 among boys’ names, 2025
Saad fell from #1,906 in 2015 to #2,353 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 40.2 to 34.5 per million.
82 babies in 2012, the peak
Saad peaked in 2012, when 82 boys were given it, #1,810 among boys’ names. The 59 births of 2025 are 72% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | #2,353 | 34.5 |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,258 | 37.1 |
| 2023 | 50 | #2,648 | 29.2 |
| 2022 | 45 | #2,860 | 25.8 |
| 2021 | 47 | #2,725 | 26.9 |
| 2020 | 66 | #2,134 | 38.2 |
| 2019 | 58 | #2,356 | 32.3 |
| 2018 | 71 | #2,040 | 39.1 |
| 2017 | 79 | #1,868 | 42.7 |
| 2016 | 76 | #1,934 | 40.0 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 77 | #1,906 | 40.2 |
| 2014 | 75 | #1,938 | 39.0 |
| 2013 | 79 | #1,824 | 41.8 |
| 2012 | 82 | #1,810 | 43.2 |
| 2011 | 53 | #2,398 | 27.9 |
| 2010 | 69 | #1,998 | 36.0 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,179 | 31.3 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,229 | 29.4 |
| 2007 | 68 | #2,049 | 32.8 |
| 2006 | 69 | #1,963 | 33.6 |
| 2005 | 75 | #1,765 | 37.6 |
| 2004 | 79 | #1,647 | 39.8 |
| 2003 | 65 | #1,836 | 32.9 |
| 2002 | 77 | #1,592 | 39.7 |
| 2001 | 63 | #1,790 | 32.4 |
| 2000 | 53 | #1,956 | 27.0 |
| 1999 | 65 | #1,649 | 33.9 |
| 1998 | 67 | #1,581 | 35.1 |
| 1997 | 65 | #1,573 | 34.5 |
| 1996 | 55 | #1,718 | 29.0 |
| 1995 | 37 | #2,197 | 19.4 |
| 1994 | 50 | #1,764 | 25.9 |
| 1993 | 37 | #2,151 | 18.9 |
| 1992 | 42 | #1,946 | 21.0 |
| 1991 | 32 | #2,280 | 15.8 |
| 1990 | 46 | #1,746 | 22.4 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,583 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 31 | #2,076 | 16.2 |
| 1987 | 32 | #1,965 | 17.1 |
| 1986 | 26 | #2,214 | 14.1 |
| 1985 | 23 | #2,343 | 12.4 |
| 1984 | 22 | #2,350 | 12.2 |
| 1983 | 19 | #2,553 | 10.6 |
| 1982 | 15 | #3,079 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 26 | #2,079 | 14.5 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,397 | 7.3 |
| 1979 | 10 | #4,021 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,950 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,501 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,317 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,970 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Saad a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Saad has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Saad: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Saad, and how old are they?
2,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,476 Americans ever recorded as Saad. The median Saad alive today is 19 years old; half are between 10 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 5,062 people named Saad (33 women and girls, 5,029 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,126 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 45 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 485 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 840 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Saad born?
The states with the most babies named Saad are Texas, New York and Michigan, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #1,884 | 0.6× |
| New York | 7 | #1,539 | 2.5× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,089 | 0.6× |
Where Saad is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Saad is most over-represented in New York: since 1973 it was given 2.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Saad with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,607 babies since 1880, Saad is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 59 of their 283 babies (21%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Saad
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Saad and names like it
- Compare Saad and SaidBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSaad peaked in 2012.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Saad since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Saad: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Saad.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Saad alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.