In 2025, 48 US boys were named Saeed, making it the 2,711th most common boys’ name of the year, up 328 places from #3,039 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 41 boys named Saeed in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,688, reached in 1980. The most boys given the name in a single year was 60, in 2011. For comparison, it was #2,270 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Saeed in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 5 babies. In all, 1,878 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 514 babies named Saeed.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 452 US boys were named Saeed; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 55. In 2025 that was about 1 in 35,585 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Saeed ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #1,233 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Said (3,166 babies since 1880), Sade (10,102 babies since 1880) and Saad (2,476 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Saheed, Sayeed and Zaheed are summarised on this page.