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:

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  • Suad Amiry (born 1951), Palestinian author and architect
  • Suad al-Attar (born 1942), Iraqi painter
  • Suad Beširević (1963-2019), 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 (born 1945), Egyptian comparative fiqh professor at Al-Azhar University
  • Suad Šehović (born 1987), Montenegrin basketball player
  • Suad Al-Shammari (born 1966), 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

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