Syed

What Syed means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Syed yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1965, with 7 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Syed?

US: Steady: #1162 in 2015, #1217 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #156 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2000, when 224 boys got the name (#753 that year). First in the US records in 1965.

How common

• About 1 in 10,290 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 699 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,455 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NY (0.41 per 1,000 boys), VA (0.4 per 1,000 boys), IL (0.34 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Syed is #1217 in the US and #126 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Syed were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Sayed24 US · 43 E&W
• Zayed26 US · 10 E&W
• Seyed0 US · 10 E&W
• Zyad0 US · 5 E&W
• Sayyed0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Syed

Boys

• Cade#248“lump, swelling”^*
• Griffin#222Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #222 vs #1,035 in 2025
• Hunter#130From the word “hunter”^*
• Jonah#128“dove”^*
• Lane#250Editor’s note Up from #297 in 2015 to #250 in 2025 in the US
• Isaiah#57Editor’s note Down from #49 in 2015 to #57 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 320 US boys in the 2025 records

For a sister

• Autumn#88Editor’s note Down from #69 in 2015 to #88 in 2025 in the US
• Delaney#242“from the alder grove”^*
• Kennedy#85“head + ugly”^*
• Jade#95Editor’s note Up from #126 in 2015 to #95 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 600 US girls in the 2025 records
• Madeline#81Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #81 vs #304 in 2025
• Selena#268“heavenly”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Syed’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.