boys:
2.9k births since 1961
#2315 (49th percentile)
overall:
2.9k births since 1961
#4994 (35th percentile)
The name Said is the #4,994 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,947 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 35.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 35.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,315 (49.5% percentile) for all time with 2,947 births since 1961.
Said first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (first recorded for boys in 1961). Birth data for Said is available in 58 out of the 63 years between 1961 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Said reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 18.0% percentile (ranked #722) with 80 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 80 births per million (ranked 18.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Said ranks #812 for boys (10.9% percentile) with 57 births per million, which is 70.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Said".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Said. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 27.1% confident that Said is pronounced as sayd, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sehd, at 22.9% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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