Syed

At the 2020 census, 13,973 Americans bore the surname Syed — 2,513th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 21,400.

By the numbers

People: 13,973
Rank: 2,513th
How common: 1 in 21,400
Per 100,000: 4.7

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 90.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
White, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Syed

Syed Ali Shah Geelani (1929–2021)Kashmiri Politician, separatist leader

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

Also a first name

Syed has been given to 6,043 American babies as a first name since 1965, peaking in 2000. 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.