First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
First name origin & meaning:
Arabic: Happy
First name variations: Daied, Saiyid, Sayeed, Sayid, Syed, Said
Last name origin & meaning:
Muslim: from a personal name based on the Arabic adjective sa‛īd ‘lucky’, ‘fortunate’. Compare Saad.