Sá
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Galician-Portuguese Saa, from Proto-Germanic *salą (“house, dwelling”), via either Gothic or Suevic. Doublet of sala. Cognate of Galician Saa, Sa.
- BRBrazil1 in 614(measured from records)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 1.2K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 6.7K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 187 (measured from records)
- 1 in 614 (inferred from the name graph)
344,780 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sâ in DZ Algeria and Sà in TN Tunisia.
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)
- Old Galician-PortugueseSaa(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*salą“house“house, dwelling”(measured from records)
From Old Galician-Portuguese Saa, from Proto-Germanic *salą (“house, dwelling”), via either Gothic or Suevic. Doublet of sala. Cognate of Galician Saa, Sa.
Sources 2
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sá 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.
344,780 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname), counting the spelling sa. 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sá is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In kix, to stick an elongated object into a hole or pit intentionally or unintentionally.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Faroese, first-person singular past of síggja
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, verbal noun of sáigh
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, this, that
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, to sow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Vietnamese, road
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Estácio de Sáb. 1520PTPortuguese soldier; first Governor of Rio de Janeiro
- Salvador de Sáb. 1602ESPortuguese soldier and politician
- Francisco de Sá Carneirob. 1934PTPortuguese politician (1934–1980)
- Ricardo Sá Pintob. 1972PTPortuguese football player/manager/director
- Armando Sáb. 1975MZMozambican footballer
- André Sáb. 1977BRBrazilian tennis player
- Roberta Sáb. 1980BRBrazilian singer
- Orlando Sáb. 1988PTPortuguese footballer
- Josué Sáb. 1992PTPortuguese footballer
- José Sáb. 1993PTPortuguese footballer (born 1993)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AO Angola | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #338 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Sá mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Galician-Portuguese Saa, from Proto-Germanic *salą (“house, dwelling”), via either Gothic or Suevic. Doublet of sala. Cognate of Galician Saa, Sa. Recorded by Wiktionary and YorùbáName Dictionary.
- How do you pronounce Sá?
- A machine transcription gives /sa/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Sá have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 345 thousand people named Sá, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sá.
- Where is Sá most common?
- Sá is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 614 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sá?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 344,780 people named Sá, about 1 in 614 residents.
- How common is Sá compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Sá is the 530th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sá?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A1The 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, “Sá” — the 530th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.