Sāgar
surname · Latin script
Sāgar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Hindi सागर (sāgar). Sāgar is also written สาคร in Thai, সাগর in Bengali and సగర in Telugu.
- INIndia≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 25Kfew records
- SGSingapore≈1 in 37Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sāgar itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 302 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈930,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Sāgar in other scripts: Thai, Bengali and Telugu
(measured from records)20 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sagor in BD Bangladesh, US United States, Sagar in IN India, สาคร in TH Thailand and Sakol in SE Sweden.
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)From Hindi सागर (sāgar).
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sāgar 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 | — | ≈930,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 15K | Sagar | 288 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈97,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 165 | Sagor | 81 |
| TH Thailand | #121 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | register #174,623 | สาคร | 96 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Salam | 41 |
| US United States | — | 3,099 | 1 in 107K | 3.1K | Sagor | 302 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,325as Salam | 1 in 7.7K | 1.3K | Sakol | 20 |
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; Bangladeshi name database containing surnames and first names categorized by gender and frequency.; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sāgar mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hindi सागर (sāgar). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people named Sāgar?
- Mondonomo estimates about 929 thousand people named Sāgar in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sagar. After it come Bangladesh, Thailand, Pakistan and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sāgar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,099 people named Sāgar in 2020, about 1 in 107 thousand residents.
- How common is Sāgar compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Sāgar is the 121st most common given name of 488,147 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C4%81garThe 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, “Sāgar” — ranked 755th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.