Sayyed
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Sayyed is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 249K(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 486K
- SESweden≈1 in 880K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 225K (inferred from the name graph)
2,730 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sayyed 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.
2,730 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; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)- Alauddin Sabir Kaliyarib. 1196AFnot in their usual name13th century South Asian Sufi saint
- Jamil Al Sayyedb. 1950LBLebanese general
- Junior Mehmoodb. 1956INnot in their usual nameIndian actor (1956-2023)
- Anisa Sayyedb. 1980INIndian sport shooter
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)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 2.7K | #2,472 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 2.6K | #1,410 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 344 | #62,792 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 211 | #88,020 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 139 | #116,123 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 22 | #40,032 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 1 | #941 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Sayyed have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Sayyed, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sayyed.
- How common is the name Sayyed?
- In India, the national register counted 2,730 people named Sayyed, about 1 in 486 thousand residents.
- How common is Sayyed compared with other names?
- In India, Sayyed is the 422nd most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sayyed?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sayyedThe 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, “Sayyed” — the 422nd most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.