Sagó
surname · Latin script
Sagó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Malay sagu, via Portuguese sagu or Dutch sago.
- USUnited States1 in 420K(measured from records)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 103K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 201K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 165 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 103K (inferred from the name graph)
≈990 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sago in US United States, PH Philippines, ZA South Africa and 4 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)
- Malaysagu(measured from records)
- Portuguesesagu(measured from records)
From Malay sagu, via Portuguese sagu or Dutch sago.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sagó 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Sago | 1 |
| US United States | 792 | 1 in 420K | 831 | Sago | 165 |
| PH Philippines | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 201K | — | Sago | 9 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 212K | — | Sago | 12 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 957K | — | Sago | 9 |
| CO Colombia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 369K | — | Sago | 5 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 282K | — | Sago | 6 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2020. 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sagó mean, and where does it come from?
- From Malay sagu, via Portuguese sagu or Dutch sago. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Sagó have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 989 people named Sagó in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sago.
- How common is the name Sagó?
- In the United States, the national register counted 792 people named Sagó in 2010, about 1 in 420 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sagó?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sag%C3%B3The 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, “Sagó”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.