# Saeed (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/saeed/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,878 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,878 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 485, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 60 | 2,196 |
| 2012 | 43 | 2,808 |
| 2013 | 53 | 2,392 |
| 2014 | 55 | 2,366 |
| 2015 | 59 | 2,270 |
| 2016 | 44 | 2,761 |
| 2017 | 52 | 2,482 |
| 2018 | 55 | 2,411 |
| 2019 | 37 | 3,183 |
| 2020 | 43 | 2,831 |
| 2021 | 45 | 2,811 |
| 2022 | 36 | 3,327 |
| 2023 | 51 | 2,603 |
| 2024 | 41 | 3,039 |
| 2025 | 48 | 2,711 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 25 | 1,045 |
| 2012 | 14 | 1,669 |
| 2013 | 12 | 1,796 |
| 2014 | 16 | 1,486 |
| 2015 | 12 | 1,902 |
| 2016 | 19 | 1,363 |
| 2017 | 21 | 1,247 |
| 2018 | 18 | 1,382 |
| 2019 | 8 | 2,488 |
| 2020 | 10 | 2,076 |
| 2021 | 9 | 2,301 |
| 2022 | 10 | 2,165 |
| 2023 | 11 | 2,007 |
| 2024 | 9 | 2,443 |
| 2025 | 13 | 1,897 |

## People named Saeed

- Saeed al-Ghamdi, 9/11 hijacker
- Saeed Al Mowalad, footballer
- Saeed Ajmal, cricketer
- Saeed Al-Kathiri, Emirati footballer
- Saeed Murjan, footballer
- Saeed Anwar, former Pakistani Cricketer
- Saeed Al Kass, association football player
- Saeed bin Butti
- Sa'id ibn Zayd, companion of Muhammad
- Said Musa, 3rd Prime Minister of Belize from 1998 to 2008
- Djabir Saïd-Guerni, Algerian athletics competitor (born 1977)
- Said Husejinović, Bosnian footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.