How common is the surname Assad?

1,400 people in the United States had the surname Assad in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 220,533 Americans. It ranked 19,334th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Assad?

In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Assad identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Assad?

Salah Assad, Algerian footballer, followed by Badi Assad.

Where is the surname Assad most common?

Wikidata records people named Assad in Algeria, Brazil and the United States.

How do you pronounce Assad?

Assad is /æˈsɑːd/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Assad getting more or less common?

More common. 1,230 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,400 in 2010, up 14%.

The surname Assad

A surname, carried by 1,400 people in the United States.

Pronounced /æˈsɑːd/ 2 syllables Soundex A230

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Assad is more common than 88.1% of them.

Origin

From Arabic الأسد (al-ʔasad, literally “the lion”).

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,400 people named Assad in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 220,533 Americans. That is up 14% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,230.

#19,334

rank among US surnames

1,400

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+13.8%

change since 2000 (was #20,152)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#19,334	Assad	1,400	220,533
#19,341	Knapik	1,399	220,690

Who is named Assad

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

81% of people named Assad identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 6.4% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 81%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 6.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 6.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 3.1%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Assads

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Salah Assad
Algerian footballer, born 1958
Badi Assad
Brazilian jazz/worldbeat musician, born 1966
Montel Vontavious Porter
American professional wrestler, born 1973

Notable Assads come mostly from Algeria (1), Brazil (1) and the United States (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Asad

Surnames that sound like Assad

Asad

Assad has the Soundex code A230, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A230.

Questions

Where does the surname Assad come from?: From Arabic الأسد (al-ʔasad, literally “the lion”).
How common is the surname Assad?: 1,400 people in the United States had the surname Assad in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 220,533 Americans. It ranked 19,334th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Assad?: In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Assad identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Assad?: Salah Assad, Algerian footballer, followed by Badi Assad.
Where is the surname Assad most common?: Wikidata records people named Assad in Algeria, Brazil and the United States.
How do you pronounce Assad?: Assad is /æˈsɑːd/, 2 syllables.
Is the surname Assad getting more or less common?: More common. 1,230 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,400 in 2010, up 14%.
What are other spellings of Assad?: Asad.