Said
Said was given to 107 boys in 2025, #1,596 among boys’ names; 3,166 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,110 Americans named Said and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Said by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Said mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Said is “a male given name from Arabic.”
Borrowed from Arabic سَعِيد (saʕīd).
/saɪd/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Said?
#1,596 among boys’ names, 2025
Said rose from #1,823 in 2015 to #1,596 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 42.8 to 62.6 per million.
165 babies in 2010, the peak
Said peaked in 2010, when 165 boys were given it, #1,131 among boys’ names. The 107 births of 2025 are 65% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 107 | #1,596 | 62.6 |
| 2024 | 110 | #1,581 | 63.8 |
| 2023 | 104 | #1,661 | 60.8 |
| 2022 | 107 | #1,633 | 61.3 |
| 2021 | 92 | #1,761 | 52.6 |
| 2020 | 80 | #1,868 | 46.3 |
| 2019 | 70 | #2,078 | 39.0 |
| 2018 | 72 | #2,025 | 39.6 |
| 2017 | 75 | #1,931 | 40.5 |
| 2016 | 83 | #1,823 | 43.7 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 82 | #1,823 | 42.8 |
| 2014 | 104 | #1,548 | 54.1 |
| 2013 | 96 | #1,610 | 50.8 |
| 2012 | 98 | #1,600 | 51.7 |
| 2011 | 146 | #1,207 | 76.9 |
| 2010 | 165 | #1,131 | 86.0 |
| 2009 | 99 | #1,614 | 49.9 |
| 2008 | 98 | #1,609 | 48.0 |
| 2007 | 104 | #1,525 | 50.1 |
| 2006 | 114 | #1,401 | 55.5 |
| 2005 | 113 | #1,340 | 56.6 |
| 2004 | 122 | #1,243 | 61.5 |
| 2003 | 116 | #1,251 | 58.7 |
| 2002 | 119 | #1,180 | 61.3 |
| 2001 | 57 | #1,927 | 29.3 |
| 2000 | 46 | #2,185 | 23.4 |
| 1999 | 27 | #3,080 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 36 | #2,436 | 18.8 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,052 | 23.3 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,659 | 15.3 |
| 1995 | 32 | #2,428 | 16.8 |
| 1994 | 28 | #2,666 | 14.5 |
| 1993 | 34 | #2,279 | 17.3 |
| 1992 | 27 | #2,647 | 13.5 |
| 1991 | 23 | #2,892 | 11.4 |
| 1990 | 30 | #2,356 | 14.6 |
| 1989 | 28 | #2,395 | 14.0 |
| 1988 | 26 | #2,344 | 13.6 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,884 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,865 | 9.8 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,564 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,887 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 18 | #2,655 | 10.0 |
| 1982 | 23 | #2,257 | 12.7 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,388 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,220 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 10 | #4,023 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 9 | #4,104 | 5.5 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,168 | 7.9 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,348 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 5 | #6,169 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,122 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,971 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,361 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,602 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,474 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,327 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,322 | 4.6 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,242 | 4.0 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,995 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Said a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Said has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Said: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Said, and how old are they?
3,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,166 Americans ever recorded as Said. The median Said alive today is 16 years old; half are between 9 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 6,729 people named Said (80 women and girls, 6,649 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,544 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 11 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 99 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 339 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,480 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,170 |
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 Said born?
The states with the most babies named Said are Texas, California and Minnesota, with 52% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 15 | #1,340 | 1.5× |
| California | 9 | #1,801 | 1.4× |
| Minnesota | 8 | #631 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 7 | #949 | 0.1× |
| New York | 6 | #1,717 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,008 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,045 | 0.4× |
| Colorado | 5 | #940 | 0.3× |
Where Said is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Said is most over-represented in Texas: since 1961 it was given 1.5 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 Said 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, Said is the most given (33% of them). In 2025 it was given to 107 of their 283 babies (38%), again the 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 Said
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 Said and names like it
- Compare Said and SaadBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSaid peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Said since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Said: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Said.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Said alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.