Said ( ), also spelled Saeid, Said, Saïd, Sid, Saeed, Saed, Saied, Sayeed or Sayid, is a male Arabic

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which means "blessed (in Quranic Classical Arabic), good luck, joy" or "happy, patient". The name stems from the Arabic verb ''sa‘ada'' (سَعَدَ – 'to be happy, fortunate or lucky'). The lesser uncommon form of the name Said is "Suid (سُعِيد ''suīd'')" and the feminine form of the name is Saida (Saidah, سَعِيدة ''saīdah'') or Suida (Suidah, سُعِيدة ''suīdah''). Said is another variant from the Arabic given name Saad. The written form of the name in Turkish is Sait and in Bosnian is Seid. Said or Sid is the spelling used in most Latin languages.

Given name

First

Sa'id of Egypt Mohamed Sa'id Pasha (, , March 17, 1822 – January 17, 1863) was the Wāli of Egypt Eyalet, Egypt and Turco-Egyptian Sudan, Sudan from 1854 until 1863, officially owing fealty to the Ottoman Sultan but in practice exercising virtual independence ...

(or Sa'id Pasha, 1822–1863), Ottoman Viceroy and Egyptian ruler for whom Port Said is named * Saeed Ajmal, Pakistani cricketer * Saeid Alihosseini (born 1988), Iranian weightlifter * Said Salim Bakhresa, a Tanzanian businessman * Said Bahaji, German al-Qaeda member * Saeid Bayat (born 1976), Iranian football midfielder * Saeed Blacknall (born 1996), American football player * Saïd Bouteflika (born 1958), Algerian politician and brother of former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika * Saïd Bouziri (1947–2009), Tunisian human rights and immigrant rights activist in France * Saeid Davarpanah (born 1987), Iranian professional basketball player * Saeid Ebrahimi (born 1982), Iranian wrestler * Saeed al-Ghamdi, Saudi terrorist and 9/11 hijacker * Said al-Ghazzi (1893–1967), Syrian lawyer and politician * Saeed Hanaei, Iranian serial killer * Sa'id Hormozi, Iranian musician * Sa'id ibn Jubayr (665–714), one of the leading Tabi‘un * Said Kamal (1938–2017), Palestinian politician * Sultan Said Khan, ruler of Kashgaria in 1514–1533 * Saeid Marouf (born 1985), a volleyball player from Iran * Saeed al-Masri, Egyptian al-Qaeda member * Saeed Akhtar Mirza (born 1943), Indian film director * Said Musa, Belizean politician * Saeed Nafisi, Iranian scholar * Saeed Naqvi, Indian journalist * Said Nursî (1878–1960), Muslim Scholar from Turkey * Said Paulo Arges (1905–1994), Brazilian footballer * Saeid Pirdoost, Iranian actor * Said Sheikh Samatar, Somali historian * Said Mohammad Sammour (born 1950), Syrian politician * Said Shavershian (born 1986), Australian bodybuilder * Said Ali al-Shihri, Saudi Arabian al-Qaeda member *

Said bin Sultan Sayyid Saïd bin Sultan al-Busaidi (, , ) (5 June 1791 – 19 October 1856) was Sultan of Muscat and Oman, the fifth ruler of the Al Bu Said dynasty from 1804 to 4 June 1856. His rule began after a period of conflict and internecine rivalry of su ...

(1797–1856), Sultan of Muscat and Oman * Saïd Taghmaoui (born 1973), French actor * Said bin Taimur (1910–1972), previous Sultan of Oman * Sa'id ibn Uthman (died 680), one of the Tabi‘un and son of

Uthman Uthman ibn Affan (17 June 656) was the third caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate, ruling from 644 until his assassination in 656. Uthman, a second cousin, son-in-law, and notable companion of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, played a major role ...

* Saeed Abubakr Zakaria, 21st-century Ghanaian scholar and leading member of Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaa'a * Sa'id bin Zayd (593–673), one of the companions of Muhammed

Middle

* Ali Said Raygal, Somali politician * Mehmed Said Pasha (or Said Pasha, 1830–1914), Ottoman Grand Vizier

Abu Sa'id

Abu Sa'id (Ilkhanid dynasty) Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan (June 2, 1305 – December 1, 1335; ), also spelled Abusaid Bahador Khan, Abu Sa'id Behauder (Modern , ''Abu sayid Baghatur Khan'', in modern Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet, Mongolian), was the ninth ruler (c. 1316 – 1335) ...

(1316–1335), ninth ruler of the Ilkhanate state in Iran *

Abu Sa'id (Timurid dynasty) Abu Sa'id Mirza (Chagatay language, Chagatay/; 14248 February 1469) was the ruler of the Timurid Empire during the mid-fifteenth century. Born a minor prince of the Timurid dynasty, Abu Sa'id quickly established himself as the most prominent am ...

(1424–1469), mid-fifteenth century Timurid Empire ruler in what are today parts of Persia and Afghanistan * Abu Said Faraj, a Nasrid prince of Granada, d. 1320 * Abu Sa'id al-Khudri * Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr (967–1049), Persian Sufi and poet * Khaled al-Hassan (1928–1994), known as Abu Said, Palestine Liberation Organization leader * Abu Saeed Muhammad Omar Ali (1919–2012), Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and translator

Surname

* Abdallah El Said (born 1985), Egyptian footballer * Abdelmadjid Sidi Said, leader of the Algerian trade union UGTA * Abdulla Saeed (born 1964), chief justice of the Maldives * Amina Said (born 1953), poet * Anjum Saeed (born 1968), Pakistani field hockey player * Anne Said (1914–1995), English artist * Azmat Saeed (1954–2025), Pakistani judge, justice of the supreme court * Boris Said (born 1962), American race car driver * Brian Said (born 1973), Maltese footballer *

Edward Said Edward Wadie Said (1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American academic, literary critic, and political activist. As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of Postcolonialism, post-co ...

(1935–2003), Palestinian-American literary critic and theorist * Hakim Said (1920–1998), Pakistani physician and scholar * Hilda Saeed (born 1936), Pakistani activist and journalist * Hussein Saeed (born 1958), Iraqi footballer * Islam Said, birth name of musician "Islam Chipsy" *

Kais Saied Kais Saied ( ; born 22 February 1958) is a Tunisian politician, jurist and retired assistant professor of law currently serving as the fifth president of Tunisia since October 2019. He was president of the Tunisian Association of Constitutional ...

, Tunisian politician * Kurban Said, pseudonym for the author of the novel ''Ali and Nino'' * Mahmoud Saeed (1939–2025), Iraqi-born American novelist * Nasser Al Saeed (1923–unknown), Saudi Arabian writer * Samira Said (born 1961), Moroccan pop star * Wafic Saïd (born 1939), Syrian businessman * Yaser Abdel Said, FBI Top 10 Most Wanted fugitive * Qaboos bin Said Al Said, previous Sultan of Oman * Harun bin Said or Harun Thohir (died 1968), birth name Tahir bin Mandir, Indonesian soldier and terrorist

In Christendom

The Maltese surname ''Saïd'' has the same origin but has been borne by Latin Catholics for over seven centuries. Most Maltese surnames are of Italian origin, but this (with ''Abdilla'') is one of the very few authentically Arabic given names that have survived in the islands as family names. It is a variant of the medieval Sicilian Christian surname ''Saido'' or ''Saito'' (''Saidu''), which was derived from the Siculo-Arabic given name ''Sa'īd'' used by both Muslims and Christians. In Sicily and Malta, this surname was sometimes Italianized as ''(De) Felice''. The surname was established in Malta by 1419, appearing mostly as ''Sayd'' in the militia list of that year. In the 1480 militia list it is spelt mostly ''Said'', but was later variously written ''Said'', ''Sayd'', ''Sajt'', ''Sait'' in the Catholic church census of 1687. The anachronistic and undocumented claim that 'Nicolò Sayd', a grandson of Cem (1459–1496, the renegade son of Turkish Sultan Mehmet II) settled in Malta and became the ancestor of all Maltese bearing the surname ''Said'' is a fantasy inspired by the writings of historical novelists Maurice Caron and John Freely and recently promoted by amateur genealogists. Today, francophone countries use transliterations of that name. These include the name Seydou, which is common in West Africa.

Fictional characters

Sayid Jarrah Sayid Hassan Jarrah (, ''Sa‘īd Ḥassān Jarrāḥ'') is a fictional character from the ABC show '' Lost'' portrayed by Naveen Andrews. Appearances Prior to the crash Sayid originally served as a communications officer in Iraq's Special Re ...

, character on the television series ''Lost'' *

Kareem Saïd The characters of ''Oz (TV series), Oz'', fictional characters on the television series about prison life, are a diverse mixture of inmates from various gangs and prison staff. Cast timeline : Main character, Main cast ("Starring" in opening c ...

, character on the HBO drama ''Oz'' * Said Rachid, character on the television series '' O Clone'', interpreted by Dalton Vigh. *Mustafa Sa'eed, protagonist of the novel

Season of Migration to the North ''Season of Migration to the North'' ( ) is novel by the Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih, first published serially in the Beirut journal '' Hiwâr'' in 1966. It became Salih's best known work and is considered a classic of postcolonial literature. T ...

*Saïd, character on the movie '' La Haine''

Other uses

* (spelled with a

Ṣād Tsade (also spelled , , , , tzadi, sadhe, tzaddik) is the eighteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ''ṣādē'' 𐤑, Hebrew ''ṣādī'' , Aramaic ''ṣāḏē'' 𐡑, Syriac ''ṣāḏē'' ܨ, Ge'ez ''ṣädäy'' ጸ, an ...

, ) is the Arabic term for

Upper Egypt Upper Egypt ( ', shortened to , , locally: ) is the southern portion of Egypt and is composed of the Nile River valley south of the delta and the 30th parallel North. It thus consists of the entire Nile River valley from Cairo south to Lake N ...

. The personal name is related to a different root, whose first letter is Sīn. ** Sa'idi people refers to the inhabitants of Upper Egypt. *

Saïd Business School Saïd Business School (Oxford Saïd or SBS) is the business school of the University of Oxford. The school is a provider of management education. Business and management classes started at Oxford in 1965 when the Centre of Management Studies, ...

at Oxford University, name after Wafic Saïd