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:
Souad
- Souad, the author of Burned Alive
- Souad Abderrahim (born 1964), 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
Suad
- 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