Sanaia

surname · Latin script

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

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

Sanaia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Georgia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • GEGeorgia1 in 2.9Kas სანაია(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 1.4M
  • ESSpain1 in 4.5M

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 Sanaia 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.

Georgia (measured from records)

1,395 named სანაია

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
28 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.4M (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SanaiaLatin(measured from records)
სანაიაGeorgian(measured from records)

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sanaia 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 Sanaia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GE Georgia#7491,395as სანაია1 in 2.9K1.4KSanaia28
PL Poland—281 in 1.4M21——
US United States—≈22 est.≈1 in 15M153Sanaia8
ES Spain—111 in 4.5M11—1
RU Russia—≈10 est.≈1 in 15M—Sanaia3

1,395 people counted by Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API), counting the spelling სანაია. 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: Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)

Sanaia is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Sanai︠a︡

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Sanaïa

  • Russian surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Türkiye, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Саная, Санаия, Санайя, Sanaya, Sanaja

21 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)

19201940196019802000Valter Sanaya, b. 1925Giorgi Sanaia, b. 1975Anzor Sanaya, b. 1989
  • Valter Sanayab. 1925GEnot in their usual nameSoviet professional football player (1925-1999)
  • Giorgi Sanaiab. 1975GEGeorgian journalist (1975-2001)
  • Anzor Sanayab. 1989RUnot in their usual nameRussian 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)

Formalპატივცემულო Sanaia,Dear Sanaia, (English)
Informalპატივცემულო Sanaia,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Sanaia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202621—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—21#87,908
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—11#114,632
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20267—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—7#169,229
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Sanaia?
A machine transcription gives /zænəiə/ (IPA) for Georgian.
In which country does Sanaia have the most bearers?
In Georgia, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named სანაია, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Sanaia most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sanaia is densest in Poland — about 1 in 1.4 million people — even though Georgia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sanaia?
In Poland, the national register counted 28 people named Sanaia in 2026, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
How common is Sanaia compared with other names?
In Georgia, Sanaia is the 749th most common surname of 36,686 surnames recorded there.

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The 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, “Sanaia” — the 749th most common surname in Georgia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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