# Souad (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/souad/  
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 | girls |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 27 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 27 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 14, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سُعاد (suʕād).

## 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, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 5 | 11,698 |
| 2003 | 6 | 15,529 |
| 2009 | 5 | 19,836 |
| 2016 | 5 | 18,539 |
| 2018 | 6 | 15,438 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 3 | 3,912 |
| 2013 | 5 | 4,050 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,927 |

## People named Souad

- Souad Massi, Algerian singer and actress
- Souad Faress, British actress
- Souâd Amidou, French actress (born 1959)
- Souad Salih, Egyptian university teacher
- Souad Bendjaballah, Algerian lawyer, activist, and politician
- Souad Mekhennet, German journalist
- Soad Hosny, Egyptian actress (1943–2001)

## 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.