Meaning not yet researched.
Said: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 107 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,131 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,131 in 2010; #1,596 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Said in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,596 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #1,131.
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Said: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 107 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,131 in 2010 · most boys in one year: 165 (2010).
In 2025, 107 US boys were named Said, making it the 1,596th most common boys’ name of the year, down 15 places from #1,581 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 110 boys named Said in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,131, reached in 2010. That year also had the most boys given the name: 165. For comparison, it was #1,823 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Said in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1961 with 6 babies. In all, 3,166 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 991 babies named Said.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 900 US boys were named Said; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 110. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,963 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Said ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #631 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Saeed (1,878 babies since 1880), Sade (10,102 babies since 1880), Zaid (7,460 babies since 1880) and Zayd (4,895 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sayyid and Sahad 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: Sayyid (166), Sahad (6).
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 Said 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 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 8 | #631 | #887 |
| Colorado | 5 | #940 | — |
| Virginia | 7 | #949 | — |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,008 | — |
| Texas | 15 | #1,340 | #1,241 |
| New York | 6 | #1,717 | #1,451 |
| California | 9 | #1,801 | #1,076 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,045 | #1,652 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 107 | #1,596 |
| 2024 | — | — | 110 | #1,581 |
| 2023 | — | — | 104 | #1,661 |
| 2022 | — | — | 107 | #1,633 |
| 2021 | — | — | 92 | #1,761 |
| 2020 | — | — | 80 | #1,868 |
| 2019 | — | — | 70 | #2,079 |
| 2018 | — | — | 72 | #2,026 |
| 2017 | — | — | 75 | #1,931 |
| 2016 | — | — | 83 | #1,823 |
| 2015 | — | — | 82 | #1,823 |
| 2014 | — | — | 104 | #1,548 |
| 2013 | — | — | 96 | #1,611 |
| 2012 | — | — | 98 | #1,601 |
| 2011 | — | — | 146 | #1,207 |
| 2010 | — | — | 165 | #1,131 |
| 2009 | — | — | 99 | #1,615 |
| 2008 | — | — | 98 | #1,609 |
| 2007 | — | — | 104 | #1,525 |
| 2006 | — | — | 114 | #1,401 |
| 2005 | — | — | 113 | #1,341 |
| 2004 | — | — | 122 | #1,245 |
| 2003 | — | — | 116 | #1,252 |
| 2002 | — | — | 119 | #1,182 |
| 2001 | — | — | 57 | #1,931 |
| 2000 | — | — | 46 | #2,189 |
| 1999 | — | — | 27 | #3,084 |
| 1998 | — | — | 36 | #2,439 |
| 1997 | — | — | 44 | #2,055 |
| 1996 | — | — | 29 | #2,664 |
| 1995 | — | — | 32 | #2,433 |
| 1994 | — | — | 28 | #2,671 |
| 1993 | — | — | 34 | #2,284 |
| 1992 | — | — | 27 | #2,653 |
| 1991 | — | — | 23 | #2,898 |
| 1990 | — | — | 30 | #2,361 |
| 1989 | — | — | 28 | #2,401 |
| 1988 | — | — | 26 | #2,349 |
| 1987 | — | — | 9 | #4,891 |
| 1986 | — | — | 18 | #2,868 |
| 1985 | — | — | 13 | #3,567 |
| 1984 | — | — | 11 | #3,890 |
| 1983 | — | — | 18 | #2,656 |
| 1982 | — | — | 23 | #2,258 |
| 1981 | — | — | 7 | #5,390 |
| 1980 | — | — | 14 | #3,221 |
| 1979 | — | — | 10 | #4,025 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #4,106 |
| 1977 | — | — | 13 | #3,169 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,350 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #6,171 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #5,124 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,973 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,363 |
| 1971 | — | — | 9 | #3,604 |
| 1970 | — | — | 9 | #3,476 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,328 |
| 1968 | — | — | 8 | #3,323 |
| 1964 | — | — | 8 | #3,243 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #3,996 |
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).