Given name & surname
Assad
“a fortunate man”
Assad is a variant of Asad. One Arabic interpretation is “a fortunate man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Assad is a variant of Asad. One Arabic interpretation is “a fortunate man.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Assad is a variant of Asad. An origin associated with Asad is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Assad through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 311
- 311 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 23 babies
- 2025
- 11
- #7,241 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +26%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 11 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,241 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 649 as a first name in 2020; 1,664 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Assad’s family of names
Assad has a related form in Asad. In English usage, Assad has a related form in Asaad. In English usage, Assad has a conventional equivalent in the Kurdish form ESED.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Assad has relatives in 11 languages.
14 related names in 11 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Assad
- Assad Al HamlawiSwedish association football playerborn 2000
- Assad ZamanEnglish actorborn 1990
- Assad Valacricketerborn 1987
- Assad KotaiteLebanese politician1924–2014
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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