Sári

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

Sári is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi vagy apanévi, esetleg anyanévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Többféleképpen is kialakulhatott.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
  • DKDenmark1 in 11K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 16K

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.

United States (measured from records)

855 people, 2010

Sources
66 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sari in US United States, BE Belgium.

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)

Típusa: Helynévi vagy apanévi, esetleg anyanévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Többféleképpen is kialakulhatott. Honfoglalás előtti ótörök jövevényszavunk a sár, amely először színre utalt, sárgásbarna vizű eret, patakot jelentett, s igen sok ilyen nevű vízfolyás volt országszerte. A vizek mellé települt községeket pedig nagyon sokszor a folyóról, patakról nevezték el. Az Árpád-kori személynevek között is megtalálhatjuk a külső tulajdonságra utaló (’világos bőrű, hajú, szőke’ jelentésű) Sár nevet. A személynév magyar névadással (minden végződés vagy összetétel nélkül is) településnévvé válhatott, de megkaphatta az -a birtokjelet is, ami által a Sára településnév jelentése ’Sár birtoka, tulajdona, Sáré’ lett. A birtokjel korábbi formája -i volt, s a Sári nevezetű községek is ugyanazt jelentették. Sár, Sára és Sári nevű településünk volt Bács, Baranya, Bars, Bodrog, Fejér, Heves, Komárom, Pest, Somogy, Sopron, Szatmár, Temes, Vas, Veszprém, Zala, Zemplén vármegyében. Bármelyik településnév (Sár, Sára, Sári) ’onnan/oda való’ jelentésű -i képzős alakjából kialakulhatott a Sári eredetre, származási helyre utaló családnév. A Sárai és Sárii -i képzős nevek végén álló magánhangzó-találkozást (hiátust) a magyar nyelv az egyik magánhangzó kivetésével oldotta föl. A Sár személynévhez is hozzájárulhatott az -i vagy -a birtokjel, ha családnév lett, s akkor jelentése ’Sári vagy Sára nevű személy fia, leszármazotta’. Nagyon ritkán a Sára női keresztnévből is lehetett családnév az -i birtokjellel ’Sáráé, Sára nevű anya fia, leszármazotta’ jelentéssel, de az anyanév (matronimikon) nem jellemző a magyar családnevek kialakulására. A Sári női becenév pedig egyáltalában nem jöhet számításba, mert első ismert följegyzése a XVIII. századból való, amikorra a családnevek nagyrészt megszilárdultak. Elterjedtsége: A Sárai az ország északi, északnyugati részében, a Sári a nyelvterület keleti felében gyakoribb, Erdélyben, Kárpátalján ritkább.

Sources 1

  • Családnevek enciklopédiája

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sári 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 Sári is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—8551 in 389K3.4KSari44
BR Brazil—8441 in 251K844——
HU Hungary#347≈780 est.≈1 in 13K—Sári66
BE Belgium—6591 in 18K968Sari2
IN India—5471 in 2.4M547—3
CH Switzerland—5281 in 16K528—2
DK Denmark—5241 in 11K524——
NO Norway—2431 in 23K249——

855 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Sári is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Czech surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, Türkiye

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Šári, Sari, Šárí, Sárí, Šari

  • German surname44 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Australia, Austria

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Sari, Şari, S'Ari, Säri, Sârî

  • Indonesian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Türkiye

    Also written 'Sari, Sar'I, Şari

  • a separate name9 spellings in the group

    Also written SaRî, Sarī, Sari, Ṣārī, Śari

  • Italian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Türkiye, United Kingdom

    Also written Sari, Sarì, Sàrî

  • Croatian surname49 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Bulgaria, Türkiye, Serbia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Sari, Shari, Šari, Surry, Сари

10 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)

19201940196019802000József Sári, b. 1935Mihály Sári, b. 1949László Sári, b. 1950Nándor Sári, b. 1957Zsolt Sári, b. 1976Attila Sári, b. 1976Éva Sári, b. 1977Barbara Sári, b. 1990

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)

FormalTisztelt Sári!Dear Sári, (English)
InformalTisztelt Sári!Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Sári
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20244#118,617

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name 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 are other forms of the name Sári?
In the etymology graph, Sassa is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Sári?
A machine transcription gives /ʃari/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
What does the name Sári mean?
Recorded meaning: Típusa: Helynévi vagy apanévi, esetleg anyanévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Többféleképpen is kialakulhatott.
In which country does Sári have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 855 people named Sári, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sari.
Where is Sári most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sári is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sári?
In the United States, the national register counted 855 people named Sári in 2010, about 1 in 389 thousand residents.
How common is Sári compared with other names?
In Hungary, Sári is the 347th most common surname of 88,284 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, “Sári” — the 347th most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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