Meaning not yet researched.
Syed: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 166 in 2025. Its best rank was #754 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #754 in 2000; #1,221 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Syed in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,221 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #754.
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Syed: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 166 boys in 2025. Peak: #754 in 2000 · most boys in one year: 224 (2000).
In 2025, 166 US boys were named Syed, making it the 1,221st most common boys’ name of the year, up 408 places from #1,629 in 2024. That is 61 more than the 105 boys named Syed in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #754, reached in 2000. That year also had the most boys given the name: 224. For comparison, it was #1,166 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Syed in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1965 with 7 babies. In all, 6,043 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,608 babies named Syed.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,386 US boys were named Syed; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 166. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,290 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Syed ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #478 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Cyd, Zed and Zyad 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Cyd (556), Zed (454), Zyad (157), Seyed (122), Syeed (66), Syid (5), Seid (5).
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 Syed 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 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 35 | #478 | #409 |
| Virginia | 15 | #523 | #1,121 |
| Illinois | 17 | #565 | #598 |
| New Jersey | 9 | #752 | #509 |
| Texas | 33 | #826 | #795 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,096 | #1,070 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,336 | — |
| California | 10 | #1,671 | #1,255 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,062 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 166 | #1,221 |
| 2024 | — | — | 105 | #1,629 |
| 2023 | — | — | 145 | #1,321 |
| 2022 | — | — | 141 | #1,339 |
| 2021 | — | — | 127 | #1,432 |
| 2020 | — | — | 134 | #1,339 |
| 2019 | — | — | 126 | #1,406 |
| 2018 | — | — | 137 | #1,327 |
| 2017 | — | — | 148 | #1,244 |
| 2016 | — | — | 157 | #1,207 |
| 2015 | — | — | 160 | #1,166 |
| 2014 | — | — | 139 | #1,284 |
| 2013 | — | — | 156 | #1,160 |
| 2012 | — | — | 140 | #1,264 |
| 2011 | — | — | 130 | #1,316 |
| 2010 | — | — | 147 | #1,213 |
| 2009 | — | — | 137 | #1,288 |
| 2008 | — | — | 156 | #1,164 |
| 2007 | — | — | 156 | #1,147 |
| 2006 | — | — | 141 | #1,193 |
| 2005 | — | — | 135 | #1,190 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,487 | 141 | #1,127 |
| 2003 | — | — | 178 | #925 |
| 2002 | — | — | 168 | #958 |
| 2001 | — | — | 167 | #935 |
| 2000 | — | — | 224 | #754 |
| 1999 | — | — | 157 | #935 |
| 1998 | — | — | 140 | #988 |
| 1997 | — | — | 155 | #896 |
| 1996 | — | — | 133 | #967 |
| 1995 | — | — | 157 | #871 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,238 | 132 | #962 |
| 1993 | — | — | 123 | #978 |
| 1992 | — | — | 116 | #1,015 |
| 1991 | — | — | 113 | #1,016 |
| 1990 | — | — | 90 | #1,148 |
| 1989 | — | — | 88 | #1,139 |
| 1988 | — | — | 82 | #1,107 |
| 1987 | — | — | 68 | #1,173 |
| 1986 | — | — | 72 | #1,112 |
| 1985 | — | — | 62 | #1,209 |
| 1984 | — | — | 39 | #1,578 |
| 1983 | — | — | 53 | #1,272 |
| 1982 | — | — | 49 | #1,360 |
| 1981 | — | — | 51 | #1,307 |
| 1980 | — | — | 44 | #1,446 |
| 1979 | — | — | 42 | #1,462 |
| 1978 | — | — | 40 | #1,486 |
| 1977 | — | — | 28 | #1,850 |
| 1976 | — | — | 31 | #1,705 |
| 1975 | — | — | 17 | #2,527 |
| 1974 | — | — | 25 | #1,879 |
| 1973 | — | — | 12 | #3,000 |
| 1972 | — | — | 9 | #3,582 |
| 1971 | — | — | 9 | #3,623 |
| 1970 | — | — | 9 | #3,489 |
| 1969 | — | — | 7 | #3,900 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #4,094 |
| 1967 | — | — | 5 | #4,470 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,508 |
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).