Syeda
Syeda was given to 70 girls in 2025, #2,537 among girls’ names; 1,859 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,840 Americans named Syeda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Syeda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Syeda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Syeda is “a female given name from Arabic, masculine equivalent Syed”
Borrowed from Arabic سَيِّدَة (sayyida).
(female given name): From Urdu سیدہ, from Arabic سَيِّدَة (sayyida)
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Syeda?
#2,537 among girls’ names, 2025
Syeda rose from #3,124 in 2015 to #2,537 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 30.3 to 43.6 per million.
76 babies in 2024, the peak
Syeda peaked in 2024, when 76 girls were given it, #2,411 among girls’ names. The 70 births of 2025 are 92% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70 | #2,537 | 43.6 |
| 2024 | 76 | #2,411 | 46.9 |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,264 | 31.2 |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,786 | 37.8 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,667 | 25.6 |
| 2020 | 49 | #3,218 | 30.3 |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,125 | 31.0 |
| 2018 | 56 | #2,959 | 32.9 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,868 | 34.2 |
| 2016 | 61 | #2,824 | 34.4 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 54 | #3,124 | 30.3 |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,776 | 35.3 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,454 | 26.2 |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,310 | 28.4 |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,084 | 31.3 |
| 2010 | 61 | #2,865 | 34.3 |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,611 | 24.5 |
| 2008 | 49 | #3,416 | 25.9 |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,593 | 23.9 |
| 2006 | 52 | #3,219 | 27.4 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,573 | 22.7 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,613 | 22.3 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,793 | 30.6 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,714 | 20.0 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,914 | 27.8 |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,061 | 25.3 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,925 | 25.9 |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,164 | 22.6 |
| 1997 | 40 | #3,026 | 23.0 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,616 | 17.7 |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,275 | 19.9 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,221 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,340 | 18.8 |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,964 | 21.7 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,310 | 12.8 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,502 | 11.6 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,647 | 10.8 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,466 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,964 | 12.7 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,536 | 6.4 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,900 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,234 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,113 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,315 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 8 | #8,046 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,271 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,902 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,442 | 4.6 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,904 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,793 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Syeda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Syeda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Syeda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Syeda, and how old are they?
1,840 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,859 Americans ever recorded as Syeda. The median Syeda alive today is 17 years old; half are between 9 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 5,794 people named Syeda (5,771 women and girls, 23 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,506 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.8 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 | 37 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 317 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 747 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 736 |
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 Syeda born?
The states with the most babies named Syeda are New York, Texas and Illinois, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 16 | #975 | 4.3× |
| Texas | 13 | #1,780 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,227 | 2.4× |
Where Syeda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Syeda is most over-represented in New York: since 1974 it was given 4.3 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 girls’ 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 Syeda 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,225 babies since 1880, Syeda is the most given (84% of them). In 2025 it was given to 70 of their 70 babies (100%), 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 Syeda
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 Syeda and names like it
- Compare Syeda and SiedahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSyeda peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Syeda since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Syeda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Syeda.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Syeda alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.