Sajjad
Sajjad/ Sjjad سَجَّاد is a given name and a surname derived 'to bow down ', shared with the Arabic word مسجد masjid 'mosque'.
- Arabic
- Persian
- Urdu
- Bengali
Meaning & Origin of Sajjad
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Sajjad/ Sjjad سَجَّاد is a given name and a surname derived 'to bow down ', shared with the Arabic word مسجد masjid 'mosque'.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Arabic
- Persian
- Urdu
- Bengali
The Story of Sajjad
Sajjad first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1987, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2003: 11 births, good for #6,257 nationwide. About 40% of every Sajjad on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Sajjad last appeared in the published SSA data in 2023, with 8 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 158 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
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About the name Sajjad
Sajjad is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1987 and has accumulated 158 births in the dataset. Sajjad's peak popularity came in 2003 when it ranked #6,257. Use the chart and map above to compare Sajjad's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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