Meaning not yet researched.
Saad: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 59 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,576 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,576 in 1997; #2,353 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Saad in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,353 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #1,576.
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Saad: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 59 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,576 in 1997 · most boys in one year: 82 (2012).
In 2025, 59 US boys were named Saad, making it the 2,353rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 95 places from #2,258 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 64 boys named Saad in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,576, reached in 1997. The most boys given the name in a single year was 82, in 2012. For comparison, it was #1,906 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Saad in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 6 babies. In all, 2,476 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 719 babies named Saad.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 615 US boys were named Saad; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 79. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,950 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Saad ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #1,089 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sade (10,102 babies since 1880), Zaid (7,460 babies since 1880), Zayd (4,895 babies since 1880) and Said (3,166 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sahaad are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Sahaad (33).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Saad in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 6 | #1,089 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,539 | #1,324 |
| Texas | 9 | #1,884 | #2,078 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 59 | #2,353 |
| 2024 | — | — | 64 | #2,258 |
| 2023 | — | — | 50 | #2,649 |
| 2022 | — | — | 45 | #2,862 |
| 2021 | — | — | 47 | #2,726 |
| 2020 | — | — | 66 | #2,134 |
| 2019 | — | — | 58 | #2,357 |
| 2018 | — | — | 71 | #2,041 |
| 2017 | — | — | 79 | #1,868 |
| 2016 | — | — | 76 | #1,934 |
| 2015 | — | — | 77 | #1,906 |
| 2014 | — | — | 75 | #1,939 |
| 2013 | — | — | 79 | #1,825 |
| 2012 | — | — | 82 | #1,811 |
| 2011 | — | — | 53 | #2,399 |
| 2010 | — | — | 69 | #1,999 |
| 2009 | — | — | 62 | #2,180 |
| 2008 | — | — | 60 | #2,230 |
| 2007 | — | — | 68 | #2,049 |
| 2006 | — | — | 69 | #1,964 |
| 2005 | — | — | 75 | #1,768 |
| 2004 | — | — | 79 | #1,650 |
| 2003 | — | — | 65 | #1,839 |
| 2002 | — | — | 77 | #1,595 |
| 2001 | — | — | 63 | #1,794 |
| 2000 | — | — | 53 | #1,960 |
| 1999 | — | — | 65 | #1,652 |
| 1998 | — | — | 67 | #1,584 |
| 1997 | — | — | 65 | #1,576 |
| 1996 | — | — | 55 | #1,721 |
| 1995 | — | — | 37 | #2,202 |
| 1994 | — | — | 50 | #1,769 |
| 1993 | — | — | 37 | #2,156 |
| 1992 | — | — | 42 | #1,951 |
| 1991 | — | — | 32 | #2,286 |
| 1990 | — | — | 46 | #1,751 |
| 1989 | — | — | 16 | #3,589 |
| 1988 | — | — | 31 | #2,081 |
| 1987 | — | — | 32 | #1,969 |
| 1986 | — | — | 26 | #2,216 |
| 1985 | — | — | 23 | #2,344 |
| 1984 | — | — | 22 | #2,351 |
| 1983 | — | — | 19 | #2,554 |
| 1982 | — | — | 15 | #3,080 |
| 1981 | — | — | 26 | #2,080 |
| 1980 | — | — | 13 | #3,398 |
| 1979 | — | — | 10 | #4,023 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,953 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,503 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,319 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,972 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).