Said
The boy's name Said has been in the national records since 1961, with 3,166 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,585th. About 3,100 Saids are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Said
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,166
- Estimated living today
- 3,100
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2010
- Best rank
- 1,127th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,585th
- First recorded
- 1961
How old the living Saids are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,166 babies given the name since 1961, about 3,100 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,800 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Arabic
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Saids
- Said Nursî (1877–1960)Turkish Sunni Muslim theologian of Kurdish origin
- Sa'id ibn Zayd (593–671)companion of Muhammad
- Said bin Taimur Al Said (1910–1972)Sultan of Muscat and Oman
- Saïd Taghmaoui (born 1973)French-American actor
- Sa'id of Egypt (1822–1863)Wāli of Egypt
- Saïd Aouita (born 1959)Moroccan runner Olympic and world 5000 m champion
- Saïd Benrahma (born 1995)Algerian association football player
- Said Musa (born 1944)3rd Prime Minister of Belize from 1998 to 2008
People named Said with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Said is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Said is most concentrated in Texas (3.6×), California (3.3×), Arizona (2.4×), New York (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2010
The most popular boys’ names the year Said peaked:
Said elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Said +1 spelling | 13,110 | 175th |
| Norway boys | Said | 669 | 225th |
| England and Wales boys | Said | 474 | 970th |
| Italy boys | Said | 363 | — |
| Belgium boys | Said +1 spelling | 343 | 680th |
| Switzerland boys | Said | 156 | 537th |
| Poland boys | Said | 15 birth registrations | 395th |
| Ireland boys | Said | 3 | 701st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Said: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Said | 133 | 0.011% | 411th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Said | 23 | 0.005% | 473rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Said is most concentrated in Aargau, where 0.02% of children were given it – 29 of them.
Said: rank by region
In 2025, Said was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Said | 642 | 8 |
In 2023, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Said appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (319th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Said by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 28 | 314th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Said among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Said +1 spelling | 256 | 458 |
| Finland girls | Said | — | 140 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Said lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 15,813 men called Said were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Said | 277 | 6.329 | 23 |
| Ceuta | Said | 219 | 5.196 | 36 |
| Almería | Said | 993 | 2.525 | 64 |
| Girona | Said | 644 | 1.547 | 104 |
| Lleida | Said | 354 | 1.504 | 109 |
| Tarragona | Said | 654 | 1.492 | 114 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Said against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.