Syed
Syed is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 104 births. Its best rank was 754th, in 2000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1040.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2000224 births
- Best rank
- #754in 2000
- Since 1965
- 5,864people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,864 boys have been named Syed in the United States since 1965, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2000, with 224 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2000s alone account for 27%. It has spent 11 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2000, its biggest year
Syed was the 754th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2000 were Jacob, Michael, Matthew, Joshua and Christopher. See all of 2000.
Names that rose and fell with Syed
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mahmoudpeak 2018
- Adilpeak 2003
- Ahmadpeak 2001
- Nicolaspeak 2003
- Nabilpeak 2015
- Nabeelpeak 1999
- Mohammadpeak 2022
- Saadpeak 2012
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.