Souad

Suad (Arabic: سعاد su‘ad) and the variants Souad, Soad, stems from the Arabic verb sa‘ada (سَعَدَ - 'to be happy, fortunate or lucky') which the name means "good luck, good fortune, happiness, auspicious, prosperous, favorable". Suad is another variant from the Arabic given name Saad.

Generally, the name is originally a female given name, however, men also use it as a given name.

Suad is also the name of a tribe and the Arabic name of an ancient deity.

The name which may refer to:

Given name

Souad

• Souad, the author of Burned Alive
• Souad Abderrahim, Tunisian politician
• Souad Abdullah (born 1950), Kuwaiti actress
• Souad Aït Salem (born 1979), Algerian long-distance runner
• Souad Amidou (born 1959), French actress
• Souad Bendjaballah, Algerian lawyer, activist for women's rights and politician
• Souad Cherouati (born 1989), Algerian swimmer
• Souad Dibi, Moroccan feminist activist
• Souad Dinar (born 1977), French weightlifter
• Souad Faress (born 1948), Ghanaian, British stage, radio, television and film actress of Syrian descent
• Souad Massi (born 1972), Algerian singer
• Souad Mekhennet (born 1978), German journalist
• Souad Nawfal, Syrian schoolteacher and activist
• Souad Oulhaj (born 1974), Moroccan football referee
• Souad Titou (born 1986), Algerian handball player
• Souad (film), an Egyptian film

Soad

• Soad Fezzani, Libyan swimmer
• Soad Hosny (1943–2001), Egyptian actress and singer
• Suad Nasr (1953–2007), Egyptian actress

Suad

• Suad Amiry (born 1951), Palestinian author and architect
• Suad al-Attar (born 1942), Iraqi painter
• Suad Beširević (born 1963), Slovenian footballer and football manager of Bosnian origin
• Suad Fileković (born 1978), Slovenian footballer
• Suad Gruda (born 1991), Swedish and Montenegrin footballer
• Suad Joseph (born 1943), American anthropologist of Lebanese origin
• Suad Kalesić (born 1954), Bosnian footballer
• Suad Nasr (1953–2007), Egyptian stage, television, and film actress
• Suad Nokić (born 1993), Serbian-Bosniak footballer
• Suad Sahiti (born 1995), Kosovo Albanian professional footballer
• Suad Salih, Egyptian comparative fiqh professor at Al-Azhar University
• Suad Šehović (born 1987), Montenegrin basketball player
• Suad Al-Shammari, Saudi Arabian women's rights activist
• Suad Švraka (1927–1995), Bosnian and Yugoslav footballer
• Suad Zeljković (born 1960), Bosnian politician who served as the Prime Minister of the Sarajevo Canton, one of Bosnia and Herzegovina's ten cantons

Surname

• Mohamed Abdou El-Souad (born 1968), Egyptian pentathlete

See also

• Soad (disambiguation)