Sáez

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/saeθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sáez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 86th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Sáez, variant of Sainz, a surname of Basque origin.

rarermore common
  • CLChile≈1 in 926(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 1.1K
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 3.4K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

45,295 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
265 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 926 (inferred from the name graph)

Chile, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SáezLatin(measured from records)
СаэзCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Saez in CL Chile, ES Spain, AR Argentina and 2 more.

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)

Borrowed from Spanish Sáez, variant of Sainz, a surname of Basque origin.

Sources 1

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sáez 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.

Where Sáez is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#8645,2951 in 1.1K45KSaez199
CL Chile#94≈20,000 est.≈1 in 926—Saez127
AR Argentina#42812,4941 in 3.6K12KSaez93
VE Venezuela#464≈8,400 est.≈1 in 3.4K—Saez52
CU Cuba—≈6,000 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Sáez16
PR Puerto Rico#230≈1,100 est.≈1 in 2.8K—Saez33

45,295 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sáez is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Saez, Saèz, Saéz, Saëz, Sàez

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, Belgium, Andorra

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Saez, Sàez, Saéz

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Italy, United States, Philippines

    Also written Saez, SÃez

  • Czech surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Czechia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Saez

  • Bulgarian surname17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian

    Also written Saez, Saéz, Sàèz, Säez, Sàez

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19401960198020002020Iñaki Sáez, b. 1943Irene Sáez, b. 1961Osleidys Menéndez, b. 1979Pau Gasol, b. 1980Jesús Valenzuela, b. 1983Marc Gasol, b. 1985Borja Jiménez Sáez, b. 1985Jorge Lorenzo, b. 1987Ronnie Fernández, b. 1991Rubén Sánchez, b. 2001
  • Iñaki Sáezb. 1943ESSpanish football player/manager
  • Irene Sáezb. 1961VEVenezuelan politician and former Miss Universe
  • Osleidys Menéndezb. 1979CUnot in their usual nameCuban athletics competitor
  • Pau Gasolb. 1980ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1980)
  • Jesús Valenzuelab. 1983VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan association football referee
  • Marc Gasolb. 1985ESnot in their usual nameSpanish basketball player (born 1985)
  • Borja Jiménez Sáezb. 1985ESSpanish football trainer
  • Jorge Lorenzob. 1987ESnot in their usual nameSpanish professional motorcycle road racer
  • Ronnie Fernándezb. 1991CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer
  • Rubén Sánchezb. 2001ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer

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)

FormalEstimado/a Sáez,Dear Sáez, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Sáez,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.

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 Sáez mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Spanish Sáez, variant of Sainz, a surname of Basque origin. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Sáez?
A machine transcription gives /saeθ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Sáez have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 45 thousand people named Sáez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saez.
How common is the name Sáez?
In Spain, the national register counted 45,295 people named Sáez, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
How common is Sáez compared with other names?
In Spain, Sáez is the 86th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Sáez” — the 86th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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