Said — #1571 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Said

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,058 babies named Said between 1961 and 2024, spanning 64 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Said currently holds the #1571 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2010, when 165 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Said performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 991 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Said shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 563 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Said in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Said in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,058 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.