Saad

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Saad: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Saad: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #423 in 2003, and it stood at #517 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
37times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#423highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#755
1997	#914
1998	#958
1999	#840
2000	#751
2001	#751
2002	#656
2003	#565
2004	#637
2005	#678
2006	#631
2007	#589
2008	#803
2009	#724
2010	#758
2011	#732
2012	#719
2013	#788
2014	#730
2015	#977
2016	#994
2017	#743
2018	#851
2019	#686
2020	#668
2021	#888
2022	#746
2023	#857
2024	#785

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2022: #746 among boys in England and Wales, #779 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #755 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2003–2022
Highest recorded position: #423 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2003 (recorded 2003–2022).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #785 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Saad appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,042 births with the name.

Saad across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Saad's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#755 (1996)	#565 (2003)	#785 (2024)	29 of 29	1,042 (1996–2024)	51 (2020)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#423 (2003)	#423 (2003)	#779 (2022)	7 of 20	24 (2003–2022)	4 (2003)

Saad by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Saad in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	70	4 of 10	18
2000s	362	10 of 10	36
2010s	401	10 of 10	40
2020sbusiest	209	5 of 10	42

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 42 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Saad appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #423 in Republic of Ireland in 2003.

Saad's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#785	43	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#857	37	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#746	44	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#888	34	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#668	51	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#686	49	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#851	36	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#743	46	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#994	29	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#977	30	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#730	44	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#788	39	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#719	46	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#732	43	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#758	39	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#724	41	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#803	35	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#589	50	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#631	44	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#678	38	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#637	38	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#565	40	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#656	30	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#751	23	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#751	23	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#840	19	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#958	15	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#914	16	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#755	20	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#517	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#610	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#615	4	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	male	#629	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#596	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#518	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#423	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #423, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 51 births, registered in England and Wales in 2020.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 29 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Saalih · #2488, 14y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Lillie-Mae · #423, 26y
Mollie-Mae · #424, 25y
Bjorn · #421, 29y
Taya · #421, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Adeola · #423, 26y
Adeoluwa · #423, 17y
Alyssia · #423, 29y
Camryn · #423, 16y

Saad was ranked #423 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2003. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Saad and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Saad without appearing here.

Saad moved ahead of

Gerard Compare
In 2016 they stood at #994 and #946 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #743 and #1398.
Wayne Compare
In 2010 they stood at #758 and #678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #732 and #1303.
Glenn Compare
In 2002 they stood at #656 and #633 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #565 and #1132.
Phillip Compare
In 2018 they stood at #851 and #835 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #686 and #1253.

Moved ahead of Saad

Oisin Compare
In 2020 they stood at #668 and #766 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #888 and #433.
Arlo Compare
In 2007 they stood at #589 and #651 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #803 and #567.
Lachlan Compare
In 1996 they stood at #755 and #1040 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #914 and #678.
Xavier Compare
In 2005 they stood at #423 and #500 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2006 that had become #596 and #384.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #423 in Republic of Ireland in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Saad

Saad at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Saad across 2 official records

Saad by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Saad appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Saad

Saad and the names beside it

Saad moved ahead of

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Saad at a glance

Saad across 2 official records

Saad by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Saad appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Saad

Saad and the names beside it

Saad moved ahead of

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