Suad
Suad, Souad, or Soad is an Arabic given name. It means "good luck, good fortune, happiness, auspicious, prosperous, favorable", and stems from the Arabic verb سَعَدَ. It is a variant of the Arabic given name Saad.
- Arabic
- Bosnian
- Albanian
Meaning & Origin of Suad
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Suad, Souad, or Soad is an Arabic given name. It means "good luck, good fortune, happiness, auspicious, prosperous, favorable", and stems from the Arabic verb سَعَدَ. It is a variant of the Arabic given name Saad.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Arabic
- Bosnian
- Albanian
The Story of Suad
American parents first put Suad on the record books as a baby girl name in 1985, with 5 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 2006, when 16 Suads were born — ranking #7,482 that year. About 39% of every Suad on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Suad last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 270 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Suad
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Suad. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
- Souad
- Su'ad
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About the name Suad
Suad is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1985 and has accumulated 270 births in the dataset. Suad's peak popularity came in 2006 when it ranked #7,482. Use the chart and map above to compare Suad'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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