boys:
147 births since 1990
#4439 (3rd percentile)
overall:
147 births since 1990
#7592 (2nd percentile)
The name Sayyid is the #7,592 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 147 recorded births since 1990. This represents the 1.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,439 (3.1% percentile) for all time with 147 births since 1990.
Sayyid first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1990 (first recorded for boys in 1990). Birth data for Sayyid is available in 23 out of the 33 years between 1990 and 2022. 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, Sayyid reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #869) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sayyid".
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Our model has identified 15 different pronunciations for the name Sayyid. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 17.4% confident that Sayyid is pronounced as SAI-ihd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SAI-yihd, at 15.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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