# Sayyid (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/sayyid/  
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 | Arabic |
| Meaning | “master”, “lord”, “the nobleman” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Said, Saiid, Saiyid, Sayed, Sayeed, Sayid, Sayyad, Syed, Seyed, Seyyed, Seyyid, Seyyit |
| US babies named this | 166 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 166 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 65, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Arabic سَيِّد (sayyid, “Master, Lord, the nobleman”).

## What it means

Sayyid is grouped under god.

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 7 | 9,767 |
| 2005 | 9 | 8,179 |
| 2006 | 7 | 10,469 |
| 2007 | 5 | 14,042 |
| 2009 | 6 | 12,228 |
| 2011 | 8 | 9,454 |
| 2013 | 6 | 11,910 |
| 2014 | 5 | 13,727 |
| 2016 | 7 | 10,547 |
| 2017 | 6 | 11,980 |
| 2018 | 9 | 8,703 |
| 2020 | 5 | 13,707 |
| 2022 | 7 | 10,663 |
| 2024 | 5 | 13,901 |
| 2025 | 14 | 6,391 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 2,863 |
| 1999 | 3 | 2,943 |
| 2002 | 4 | 2,636 |
| 2005 | 3 | 3,849 |
| 2006 | 3 | 4,052 |
| 2012 | 4 | 3,987 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4,685 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3,004 |
| 2020 | 3 | 4,608 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,449 |
| 2023 | 5 | 3,523 |
| 2024 | 8 | 2,671 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2,440 |

## People named Sayyid

- Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary (1906–1966)
- Sayyid Darwish, Egyptian musician and composer (1892–1923)
- Sayyid Al-Qemany, Egyptian writer (1947–2022)

## 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.