Sāi
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sāi is a male given name written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks; Kent. see Sales . 2 English: the Kent name may be a variant of Seales .
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks; Kent. see Sales . 2 English: the Kent name may be a variant of Seales .
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
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)Sāi 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 ko-pro, straw
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In ko-pro, bird
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 塞
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kix, put inside
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ko-pro, солома
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In ko-pro, птица
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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)- Goujianb. 550not in their usual nameKing of Yue from 496 to 465 BC
- Bao Sib. 792not in their usual nameconcubine of Zhou dynasty king You of Zhou
- Bao Shuyab. 800CNnot in their usual nameChinese politician
- Si Jianminb. 1957CNnot in their usual nameChinese politician
- Xia Yub. 2297CNnot in their usual nameXia Dynasty king and founder
- Fa of Xianot in their usual name16th Chinese king of Xia Dynasty
- Shao Kangnot in their usual name6th king of the Xia dynasty of ancient China
- Tai Sinot in their usual namewife of King Wen of Zhou
- Wang Sinot in their usual namemother of King Kang of Zhou
- Si Yizhennot in their usual nameSong dynasty person CBDB = 42839
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sāi mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks; Kent. see Sales . 2 English: the Kent name may be a variant of Seales . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007).
- Is Sāi a male or female name?
- Sāi is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
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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, “Sāi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.