Saud
Saud reached its high-water mark in 2016 at number 2,993, and has been recorded 511 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 6,143rd. About 500 Sauds are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Saud
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 511
- Estimated living today
- 500
- Median age today
- 12
- Peak year
- 2016
- Best rank
- 2,993rd
- Rank in 2025
- 6,143rd
- First recorded
- 1976
How old the living Sauds are
born that year still alive today
Of the 511 babies given the name since 1976, about 500 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
From Arabic سُعُود.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Sauds
- Saud of Saudi Arabia (1902–1969)King of Saudi Arabia from 1953 to 1964
- Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (1940–2015)Saudi royal and foreign minister
- Saud Al-Shuraim (born 1966)Former Imam Saudi at Masjid al-Haram
- Saud Kariri (born 1980)Saudi Arabian footballer
- Saud al-Kabeer (1750–1814)ruler of the Emirate of Diriyah from 1803 to 1814
- Saud II. ibn Faisal (1850–1875)Ruler of Second Saudi State in 1871 and from 1873 to 1875
- Saud I (1640–1725)Saudi Emir, 1640-1726
People named Saud with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Saud is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2016
The most popular boys’ names the year Saud peaked:
Saud elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Saud | 155 | 2,172nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Saud among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Saud | — | 10 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Saud against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.