Sayed
Sayed was given to 24 boys in 2025, #4,366 among boys’ names; 688 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sayed by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sayed?
#4,366 among boys’ names, 2025
Sayed rose from #5,695 in 2015 to #4,366 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 8.3 to 14.1 per million.
42 babies in 2022, the peak
Sayed peaked in 2022, when 42 boys were given it, #2,989 among boys’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #4,366 | 14.1 |
| 2024 | 28 | #3,962 | 16.3 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,586 | 13.4 |
| 2022 | 42 | #2,989 | 24.1 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,293 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,999 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 28 | #3,880 | 15.6 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,276 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 24 | #4,307 | 13.0 |
| 2016 | 24 | #4,297 | 12.6 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #5,695 | 8.3 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,666 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 15 | #5,869 | 7.9 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,933 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,156 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,983 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 15 | #6,031 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,340 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,204 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,385 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,596 | 9.5 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,437 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,218 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,657 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,636 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,251 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,424 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 22 | #3,465 | 11.5 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,704 | 10.1 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,350 | 7.9 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,253 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,400 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,805 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 15 | #3,969 | 7.4 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,308 | 3.9 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,771 | 7.5 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,864 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,923 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,405 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,761 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,142 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 6 | #6,114 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,115 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Sayed a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sayed has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sayed: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sayed, and how old are they?
An estimated 674 Americans named Sayed and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 7 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,571 people named Sayed (34 women and girls, 2,537 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 530 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.9 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.
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 Sayed born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #1,665 | 1.8× |
Where Sayed is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sayed is most over-represented in California: since 1980 it was given 1.8 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 Sayed 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, Sayed is the fourth most given (7.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 283 babies (8.5%), again the fourth 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 Sayed
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 Sayed and names like it
- Compare Sayed and SaidBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSayed peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sayed since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Sayed.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sayed alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.