Sayeed
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sayeed is a surname, with more bearers in India than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Bangla, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Variant spelling of Sayyid or Said.
- BDBangladesh1 in 1.3K◐
- INIndia1 in 3.2K
- USUnited States1 in 408K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈553K ◐
- Sources
- 119 ●
- 1 in 1.3K ◐
across 19 countries
336K records
Official registry-verified
Bangladesh
Spellings & scripts●
5 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sayyad in IN India, PK Pakistan, IR Iran and Sayeda in AF Afghanistan, JM Jamaica, ZA South Africa.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Variant spelling of Sayyid or Said.
Sources 1
Where in the world●
Sorted by estimated bearers.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #422 | ≈419K | 318K rec. | 1 in 3.2K | 6.4K | Sayyad | 59 |
| BD Bangladesh | #333 | ≈124K△ | 2.1K rec. | 1 in 1.3K | — | Sayeed | 40 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈5.3K△ | 379 rec. | 1 in 6.9K | 1 | Sayeda | 10 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈3K△ | 216 rec. | 1 in 79K | — | Sayyad | 12 |
| US United States | — | ≈816 | 12K rec. | 1 in 408K | 759 | Sayeed | 119 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈460 | 248 rec. | 1 in 465K | — | Sayeed | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈201 | 979 rec. | 1 in 327K | — | Sayeed | 48 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈153 | 462 rec. | 1 in 246K | 1 | Sayeed | 38 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈88 | 377 rec. | 1 in 289K | 1 | Sayeed | 24 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈66 | 156 rec. | 1 in 1.2M | — | Sayeed | 15 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈63 | 177 rec. | 1 in 890K | — | Sayeda | 9 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈38 | 97 rec. | 1 in 457K | 7 | Sayeed | 8 |
Roughly 419K people in India bear this name (about 1 in 3.2K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English60K47%
- Bangla55K43%
- Hindi10K8%
- Arabic5211%
- Urdu3271%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 59,796 | 47% |
| Bangla | 54,998 | 43% |
| Hindi | 9,987 | 8% |
| Arabic | 521 | 1% |
| Urdu | 327 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1999 | 5 |
| 2000 | 11 |
| 2001 | 8 |
| 2003 | 6 |
| 2004 | 5 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2006 | 8 |
| 2008 | 9 |
| 2009 | 5 |
| 2011 | 7 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2014 | 6 |
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2019 | 7 |
| 2020 | 6 |
| 2023 | 9 |
| 2024 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 18 years between 1989–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Mufti Mohammad Sayeedb. 1936INIndian politician (1936-2016)
- Abdullah Abu Sayeedb. 1940BDBangladeshi writer
- Jonathan Sayeedb. 1948GBBritish politician (born 1948)
- Malik Hassan Sayeedb. 1969USAmerican cinematographer and video producer
- Aryana Sayeedb. 1985AFAfghan singer
- Ahmed Sayeedresearcher (ORCID 0000-0001-7398-1231)
- Akbar SayeedUSPh. D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1996
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 38 sources across 23 countries.
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-03 data build · 76 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sayeed?
- We estimate roughly 553 thousand people bear Sayeed (counting its spellings and scripts) across 19 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sayeed have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 419 thousand people bear Sayeed in India, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled sayyad.
- Where is Sayeed most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sayeed is densest in Bangladesh — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Sayeed compared with other names?
- In India, Sayeed is the 422nd most common given name of 1,890,089 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Sayeed mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variant spelling of Sayyid or Said.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sayeed” — the 422nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.