Seydou
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- say-DOO
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Seydou is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “lord, master”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Seydou mean?
Arabic: West African form of Sayyid
“lord, master”
West African form of Sayyid, an Arabic title of respect for a lord or noble, popular in Mali and Senegal.
Is Seydou a girl's or a boy's name?
Seydou is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Seydou in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,710th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Seydou, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,734th. Its busiest year was 2005, with 10 boys. It first appears in the records in 2000.
2025 had more boys named Seydou than any year since 2020.
Half of all the boys named Seydou in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Seydou in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,322 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 6 | #10,770 |
| 2016 | 8 | #8,811 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,124 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,267 |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,593 |
| 2010 | 7 | #9,686 |
| 2009 | 8 | #8,980 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,586 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,089 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,348 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,238 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,548 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,104 |
Names like Seydou
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hamza, Zahir, Zayd, Samir, Saif, Nasir, Said, Amir, Muhammad, Zayan, Ahmir, Musa
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Kairo, Safa
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Seydou: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/seydou, updated 20 October 2026.