boys:
231 births since 1993
#4355 (5th percentile)
overall:
231 births since 1993
#7508 (3rd percentile)
The name Sayid is the #7,508 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 231 recorded births since 1993. This represents the 3.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,355 (5.0% percentile) for all time with 231 births since 1993.
Sayid first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1993 (first recorded for boys in 1993). Birth data for Sayid is available in 21 out of the 31 years between 1993 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, Sayid reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #890) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Sayid ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 28.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sayid".
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Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Sayid. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.8% confident that Sayid is pronounced as suh-YEED, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SAH-eed, at 10.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like S AH0 Y IY1 D) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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