Saeed
Saeed was given to 48 boys in 2025, #2,711 among boys’ names; 1,878 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,830 Americans named Saeed and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 11 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Saeed by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Saeed?
#2,711 among boys’ names, 2025
Saeed fell from #2,269 in 2015 to #2,711 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 30.8 to 28.1 per million.
60 babies in 2011, the peak
Saeed peaked in 2011, when 60 boys were given it, #2,195 among boys’ names. The 48 births of 2025 are 80% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #2,711 | 28.1 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,038 | 23.8 |
| 2023 | 51 | #2,602 | 29.8 |
| 2022 | 36 | #3,325 | 20.6 |
| 2021 | 45 | #2,810 | 25.7 |
| 2020 | 43 | #2,830 | 24.9 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,180 | 20.6 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,410 | 30.3 |
| 2017 | 52 | #2,481 | 28.1 |
| 2016 | 44 | #2,760 | 23.2 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 59 | #2,269 | 30.8 |
| 2014 | 55 | #2,364 | 28.6 |
| 2013 | 53 | #2,391 | 28.0 |
| 2012 | 43 | #2,807 | 22.7 |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,195 | 31.6 |
| 2010 | 56 | #2,315 | 29.2 |
| 2009 | 47 | #2,648 | 23.7 |
| 2008 | 34 | #3,332 | 16.7 |
| 2007 | 58 | #2,275 | 27.9 |
| 2006 | 48 | #2,531 | 23.4 |
| 2005 | 44 | #2,553 | 22.0 |
| 2004 | 50 | #2,297 | 25.2 |
| 2003 | 38 | #2,664 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 31 | #2,999 | 16.0 |
| 2001 | 33 | #2,847 | 17.0 |
| 2000 | 38 | #2,510 | 19.3 |
| 1999 | 43 | #2,190 | 22.4 |
| 1998 | 34 | #2,540 | 17.8 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,663 | 15.9 |
| 1996 | 36 | #2,284 | 19.0 |
| 1995 | 32 | #2,427 | 16.8 |
| 1994 | 36 | #2,245 | 18.6 |
| 1993 | 29 | #2,562 | 14.8 |
| 1992 | 39 | #2,028 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 27 | #2,587 | 13.4 |
| 1990 | 33 | #2,202 | 16.1 |
| 1989 | 31 | #2,234 | 15.5 |
| 1988 | 22 | #2,665 | 11.5 |
| 1987 | 23 | #2,451 | 12.3 |
| 1986 | 19 | #2,763 | 10.3 |
| 1985 | 23 | #2,344 | 12.4 |
| 1984 | 13 | #3,413 | 7.2 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,585 | 6.7 |
| 1982 | 16 | #2,951 | 8.8 |
| 1981 | 21 | #2,400 | 11.7 |
| 1980 | 35 | #1,688 | 19.6 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,754 | 9.9 |
| 1978 | 21 | #2,261 | 12.8 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,762 | 9.7 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,230 | 7.6 |
| 1975 | 21 | #2,190 | 13.4 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,650 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,832 | 8.3 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,906 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,631 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Saeed a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Saeed has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Saeed: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Saeed, and how old are they?
1,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,878 Americans ever recorded as Saeed. The median Saeed alive today is 20 years old; half are between 11 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 3,950 people named Saeed (17 women and girls, 3,933 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,590 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 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 | 145 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 393 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 676 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 614 |
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 Saeed born?
The states with the most babies named Saeed are New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 8 | #1,381 | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,398 | 1.6× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,233 | 0.2× |
Where Saeed is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Saeed is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1968 it was given 1.6 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 Saeed 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, Saeed is the third most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 48 of their 283 babies (17%), again the third 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 Saeed
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 Saeed and names like it
- Compare Saeed and SaidBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSaeed peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Saeed since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Saeed.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Saeed alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.