Said

7,448 people in the United States were counted with the surname Said in the 2020 census, making it the 4,620th most common in the country. That is about one person in 40,100.

By the numbers

People: 7,448
Rank: 4,620th
How common: 1 in 40,100
Per 100,000: 2.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Arabic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Said described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 51.8%
Black, not Hispanic 34.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 5.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Said

Edward Said (1935–2003)Palestinian-American professor
Samira Said (born 1958)Moroccan actress and singer
Abdallah El Said (born 1985)Egyptian association football player
Saladin Said (born 1988)Ethiopian footballer
Wesley Saïd (born 1995)French association football player
Bob Said (1932–2002)American racing driver
Muhammad Osman Said (1924–2007)Libyan politician
L’Malouma Said (born 1972)anti-slavery activist, deputy (Member of Parliament) to the Mauritanian National Assembly

People named Said with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Said

Also a first name

Said has been given to 3,166 American babies as a first name since 1961, peaking in 2010. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.