Given name & surname · Arabic
سعيد
“to become happy”
سعيد (saʕīd) is a masculine given name. It is used in Arabic.
ArabicWritten in Arabic script, read right to left. In English: Sa'id.
Meaning & origin
What it means
سعيد goes back to a word meaning “to become happy.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
سعيد is Sa'id written in Arabic script. Sa'id is a variant of Said. An origin associated with Said is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
سعيد’s family of names
In Arabic usage, سعيد has a transliteration in Sa'id. In Arabic usage, سعيد has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Саид. In Arabic usage, سعيد can be written in the Roman alphabet as saʕīd.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named سعيد
- Said bin TaimurSultan of Muscat and Oman (1910-1972)
- Saïd AouitaMoroccan runner Olympic and world 5000 m championborn 1959
- Saeed Al-OwairanSaudi Arabian footballer (born 1967)
- Saeed JaliliIranian politicianborn 1965
- Saeed JaffreyIndian actor (1929–2015)
- Said Musa3rd Prime Minister of Belize from 1998 to 2008born 1944
- Djabir Saïd-GuerniAlgerian athletics competitor (born 1977)
- Said bin SultanSultan of Muscat and Oman (1791–1856)
- Said ibn al-MusayyibMedina-based Muslim scholar (642–715)634–712
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