Syed
Last seen for girls in 2004 at #16,099 · #1,217 for boys in 2025, 166 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2000 · 224 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,032since 1965
Syed over time
Rank among boys' names. Syed has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,217 | 166 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,620 | 105 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,315 | 145 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,330 | 141 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,431 | 127 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,335 | 134 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,401 | 126 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,324 | 137 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,236 | 148 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,203 | 157 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,162 | 160 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,276 | 139 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,155 | 156 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,258 | 140 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,309 | 130 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,209 | 147 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,278 | 137 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,161 | 156 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,144 | 156 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,190 | 141 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,182 | 135 | |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #1,124 | 141 |
| 2003 | — | #924 | 178 | |
| 2002 | — | #954 | 168 | |
| 2001 | — | #926 | 167 | |
| 2000 | — | #753 | 224 | |
| 1999 | — | #931 | 157 | |
| 1998 | — | #981 | 140 | |
| 1997 | — | #893 | 155 | |
| 1996 | — | #962 | 133 | |
| 1995 | — | #862 | 157 | |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #958 | 132 |
| 1993 | — | #975 | 123 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,010 | 116 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,014 | 113 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,135 | 90 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,130 | 88 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,099 | 82 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,161 | 68 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,102 | 72 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,190 | 62 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,556 | 39 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,265 | 53 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,342 | 49 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,294 | 51 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,432 | 44 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,435 | 42 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,474 | 40 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,823 | 28 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,677 | 31 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,450 | 17 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,832 | 25 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,857 | 12 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,344 | 9 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,370 | 9 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,282 | 9 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,595 | 7 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,673 | 6 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,966 | 5 | |
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| 1965 | — | #3,244 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Syed! It came in at #3,244, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1966–1967, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Syed
- 403 spots since 2024 (#1,620 → #1,217)
- 118 spots since 2020 (#1,335 → #1,217)
- 55 spots since 2015 (#1,162 → #1,217)
- Biggest jump: 178 spots in 2000 (#931 → #753)
- Biggest drop: 200 spots in 2004 (#924 → #1,124)
- Debuted 1965
- Peaked 2000 at #753 (224 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 24 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 1993–2003
- Highest: 1 in 8,768 boys born in 2000 were named Syed (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,290 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 26.6% of all boys named Syed (1,603) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 25 | #3,244 (1965) | #3,620 |
| 1970s | 222 | #1,435 (1979) | #2,354 |
| 1980s | 608 | #1,099 (1988) | #1,257 |
| 1990s | 1,316 | #862 (1995) | #972 |
| 2000s | 1,603 | #753 (2000) | #1,064 |
| 2010s | 1,440 | #1,155 (2013) | #1,253 |
| 2020s | 818 | #1,217 (2025) | #1,375 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Syed in 1994
Top girls' names in 1994
Top boys' names in 1994
More about 1994
girls
1,785,753 girls got a published name in 1994; 1 in 297,626 of them was named Syed, which outranked 25.3% of the 15,759 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,569Zahirah7
- #10,569Zaria7
- #10,569Zitlaly7
- #11,778Syed6
- #11,778Aala6
- #11,778Aaleeyah6
- #11,778Aariona6
- #13,430Aailyah5
- #13,430Aaliayah5
- #13,430Aalijah5
Tied with 1,651 names at #11,778; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,932,031 boys got a published name in 1994; 1 in 14,637 of them was named Syed, which outranked 90.6% of the 10,245 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).