Sayyad
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: naampy, 2017
Sayyad is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country: 36,162 people, counted by Instate. Sayyad is also written সাইয়েদ in Bengali.
- INIndia1 in 37K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 58Kfew records
- KWKuwait≈1 in 64Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sayyad itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- 1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
36,162 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Sayyad in other scripts: Bengali
(measured from records)Locally spelled Saiyed in US United States, SA Saudi Arabia, BH Bahrain and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Sayyad is found
(measured from records)Sayyad counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #705 | 36,162 | 1 in 37K | 36K | Sayyad | 125 |
| US United States | — | 1,516as Sayed | 1 in 219K | 2.7K | Saiyed | 128 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 390K | listed | Sayyad | 22 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 303K | — | Saiyed | 13 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Saiyed | 11 |
| NO Norway | — | 212as Sayed | 1 in 26K | 552 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 176as Sayed | 1 in 48K | 176 | — | 1 |
| BH Bahrain | #690 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Saiyed | 11 |
| DK Denmark | — | 111as Sayed | 1 in 53K | 244 | — | 1 |
36,162 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Nora Sayyadb. 1991FIFinnish photographer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sayyad?
- In India, the national register counted about 36 thousand people named Sayyad, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sayyad. After it come United States, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Sayyad most common?
- Sayyad is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 37 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sayyad?
- In India, the national register counted 36,162 people named Sayyad, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
- How common is Sayyad compared with other names?
- In India, Sayyad is the 705th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sayyadThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sayyad” — ranked 399th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.