Šav
surname · Latin script
Meaning: seam
Šav is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 6.8K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia≈1 in 123K
- ESSpain1 in 1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)
194,520 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sav in IN India, US United States.
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)
seam
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Šav 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.
194,520 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Shao Yongb. 1011CNnot in their usual nameChinese philosopher, mathematician, and scholar under the Song dynasty (1011-1077)
- Shao Youlianb. 1840not in their usual nameQing dynasty person CBDB = 57061
- Shao Piaopingb. 1884CNnot in their usual nameQing dynasty journalists
- Shao Yuanchongb. 1890CNnot in their usual nameRepublic of China person CBDB = 82285
- 邵逸夫b. 1907CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong entertainment mogul and philanthropist (1907-2014)
- Maggie Shiub. 1965CNnot in their usual nameHong Kong actress
- Shao Bingb. 1968CNnot in their usual nameChinese actor
- Shao Jiayib. 1980CNnot in their usual nameChinese footballer
- Shao Tingb. 1989CNnot in their usual nameChinese basketball player (born 1989)
- Shao Qib. 2001CNnot in their usual nameChinese freestyle skier
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Šav mean, and where does it come from?
- seam Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Šav have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 195 thousand people named Šav, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sav.
- Where is Šav most common?
- Šav is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Šav?
- In India, the national register counted 194,520 people named Šav, about 1 in 6.8 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1avThe 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, “Šav”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.