Saray
loc · Latin script
Meaning: palace
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Saray is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 44Kas สาหร่าย(inferred from the name graph)
- MQMartinique≈1 in 17K
- COColombia≈1 in 27K
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 Saray 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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 176 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Martinique, 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 สาหร่าย in TH Thailand, Sârây in CL Chile and Säräy in CO Colombia.
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)
palace
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Saray 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 2 | Säräy | 64 |
| TH Thailand | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 44K | #700,127 | สาหร่าย | 68 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 524K | — | Saray | 6 |
| US United States | 241as Sarai | 1 in 1.4M | 18K | — | 176 |
| BR Brazil | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | 841 | — | 33 |
| CL Chile | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 104K | 80 | Sârây | 38 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 78K | 6 | — | 4 |
| ES Spain | 54 | 1 in 926K | 14K | — | 127 |
| MQ Martinique | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 5 | — | — |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Saray is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bik, to keep; to store; to put away
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, layer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Saray Malik Katunb. 1341UZprincess of Chagatai Khanate and consort of Timur
- Harold Trompeterob. 1971COnot in their usual nameColombian film director and screenwriter
- Saray Khumalob. 1971ZAZambia-born South African explorer and mountaineer
- Saray Ramírezb. 1982ESSpanish singer
- Saray García Garcíab. 1984ESfootballer
- Saray Cantero Garcíab. 1986ESSpanish politician
- Saray Orozcob. 1991MXMexican mixed martial artist
- Saray Cerro Estepab. 1994ESSpanish comedian
- Angie Saray Gonzálezb. 2001COVenezuelan athletics competitor
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)
Attested in 55 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 14K | #444 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 14K | #235 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.3K | #6,609 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 355 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 351 | #16,947 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 122 | #32,945 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 80 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 77 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 60 | #6,609 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 43 | — |
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 6 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 2 | #119 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 does the name Saray mean, and where does it come from?
- palace Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Saray have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Saray in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled säräy.
- How common is the name Saray?
- In Spain, the national register counted 54 people named Saray, about 1 in 926 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sarayThe 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, “Saray”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.