Sa'Ad
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- SAAD
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,301 for boys
Sa'Ad is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “good fortune, happiness”. In 2025 it ranked 4,301st for boys in the UK (4 babies).
What does Sa'Ad mean?
Arabic: spelling of Saad
“good fortune, happiness”
Arabic for good fortune; Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas was a companion of the Prophet Muhammad and a leading early Muslim commander.
Meaning borrowed from Saad. More on Wiktionary.
Is Sa'Ad a girl's or a boy's name?
Sa'Ad is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Sa'Ad in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,301among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 4about 1 in 75,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Falling fastdown 71% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 4 boys in the UK were named Sa'Ad, making it the 4,301st most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2005, with 9 boys.
Half of all the boys named Sa'Ad in the UK since 1996 were born between 2005 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 45 boys in the UK were given Sa'Ad or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #729, up from #4,301 for this spelling alone.
- Saad 41
- Sa'Ad 4
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,212th in England and Wales.
Sa'Ad in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,301 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,017 |
| 2021 | 5 | #3,614 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 7 | #2,878 |
| 2018 | 7 | #2,823 |
| 2017 | 7 | #2,875 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,214 |
| 2015 | 5 | #3,527 |
| 2014 | 6 | #3,125 |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,096 |
| 2012 | 6 | #3,167 |
| 2011 | 7 | #2,736 |
| 2010 | 8 | #2,534 |
| 2009 | 4 | #3,909 |
| 2008 | 8 | #2,384 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 3 | #4,204 |
| 2005 | 9 | #1,957 |
| 2004 | 7 | #2,157 |
| 2003 | 6 | #2,283 |
| 2002 | 4 | #2,751 |
| 2001 | 4 | #2,714 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #2,170 |
Names like Sa'Ad
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ahmed Muhammad Zayd Abdullah Imaad Saif Zayaan Ziyad Hammad Mustafa Sahib Zayan
Other spellings of Sa'Ad
More Arabic names
Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Sa'Ad: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sa'ad, updated 20 October 2026.