Śăw
given name · Latin script
Śăw is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Myanmar (Burma) it is the 73rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: The noun from Middle English sawe, sawgh, from Old English saga, sagu (“saw”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagu, from Proto-Germanic *sagô, *sagō (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
- FIFinland1 in 119K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 119K
- GYGuyana1 in 375K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 138 (measured from records)
- 1 in 119K (inferred from the name graph)
1,432 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Saw in MM Myanmar (Burma), US United States, IN India.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Englishsawe(measured from records)
- Old Englishsaga“saw”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*sagu(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*sagô“saw”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*sek-“to cut”(measured from records)
- Middle Englishsawen(measured from records)
The noun from Middle English sawe, sawgh, from Old English saga, sagu (“saw”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagu, from Proto-Germanic *sagô, *sagō (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Cognate with West Frisian seage (“saw”), Dutch zaag (“saw”), German Säge (“saw”), Danish sav (“saw”), Swedish såg (“saw”), Icelandic sög (“saw”), and through Indo-European, with Latin secō (“cut”) and Italian sega (“saw”). The verb from Middle English sawen, from the noun above.
Cited for this meaning 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Where in the world
(measured from records)Śăw counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 1,432 | 1 in 926K | 1.4K | Saw | 24 |
| US United States | — | 691 | 1 in 481K | 1.9K | Saw | 138 |
| FI Finland | — | 47 | 1 in 119K | 81 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | — | 46 | 1 in 119K | 62 | — | 10 |
| ES Spain | — | 20 | 1 in 2.5M | 20 | — | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 599K | 38 | — | 2 |
| GY Guyana | — | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | — |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #73 | — | — | listed | Saw | 94 |
1,432 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Śăw mean, and where does it come from?
- The noun from Middle English sawe, sawgh, from Old English saga, sagu (“saw”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagu, from Proto-Germanic *sagô, *sagō (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Śăw have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Śăw, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saw.
- Where is Śăw most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Śăw is densest in Finland — about 1 in 119 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Śăw?
- In India, the national register counted 1,432 people named Śăw, about 1 in 926 thousand residents.
- How common is Śăw compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Śăw is the 73rd most common surname of 12,945 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9B%C4%83wThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Śăw” — the 73rd most common surname in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.