Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1985. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Suad through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 275
- 5 boys · 270 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −51%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 16 in 2006. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,864 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Suad
- Suad FilekovićSlovenian footballerborn 1978
- Suad ŠehovićMontenegrin basketball player (born 1987)
- Suad BeširevićSlovenian footballer (1963-2019)
- Suad JosephAmerican anthropologistborn 1943
- Suad al-AttarIraqi painterborn 1942
- Suad Ibrahim AhmedSudanese politician and women's rights activist1935–2013
- Suad SulaimanSudanese parasitologist
- Suad BushnaqArab-Canadian composerborn 1982
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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