Saud
Saud was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,384 among boys’ names; 511 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Saud by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Saud mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Saud is “a male given name, notably borne by”
From Arabic سُعُود (suʕūd).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Saud?
#6,384 among boys’ names, 2025
Saud fell from #5,247 in 2015 to #6,384 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.4 to 8.2 per million.
39 babies in 2016, the peak
Saud peaked in 2016, when 39 boys were given it, #3,048 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #6,384 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 12 | #7,189 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,449 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,860 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 10 | #8,059 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,416 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,707 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 36 | #3,219 | 19.8 |
| 2017 | 31 | #3,569 | 16.7 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,048 | 20.6 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #5,247 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 37 | #3,079 | 19.3 |
| 2013 | 32 | #3,396 | 16.9 |
| 2012 | 27 | #3,870 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,627 | 11.1 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,664 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 10 | #8,194 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 12 | #7,108 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,607 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,459 | 3.4 |
| 2004 | 6 | #11,109 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,426 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,445 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,844 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,841 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,992 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,289 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 8 | #7,155 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,460 | 5.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,608 | 3.1 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,848 | 4.5 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,726 | 3.0 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,922 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,475 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,378 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,091 | 2.8 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,596 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,480 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Saud a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Saud has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Saud: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Saud, and how old are they?
An estimated 503 Americans named Saud and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 9 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 585 people named Saud (26 women and girls, 559 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 433 born in the U.S. The Census count is 35% above 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,607 babies since 1880, Saud is the fifth most given (5.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 283 babies (4.9%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Saud
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 Saud and names like it
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