Sáh
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sáh is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common surname. Sáh is also written Саха in Cyrillic, สีหา in Thai and Շահ in Armenian.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 51K(inferred from the name graph)
- VNVietnam≈1 in 230as Ha
- INIndia1 in 286as Sahu
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 Sáh itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- #56 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 272 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)
4,643,497 named Sahu
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Sáh in other scripts: Latin, Cyrillic, Thai and 5 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Saha in US United States, BD Bangladesh, Sahu in IN India, Ha in VN Vietnam and Sah in BR Brazil.
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.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Sáh is found
(measured from records)Sáh 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 | #8 | 4,643,497as Sahu | 1 in 286 | 4.6M | Sahu | 262 |
| BD Bangladesh | #22 | ≈580,000 est. | ≈1 in 299 | — | Saha | 120 |
| VN Vietnam | #29 | ≈450,000 est. | ≈1 in 225 | listed | Ha | 232 |
| BR Brazil | — | 344,780as Sa | 1 in 614 | 345K | Sah | 28 |
| US United States | — | 58,287as Shah | 1 in 5.7K | 77K | Saha | 272 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Şaha | 6 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Şah | 38 |
4,643,497 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Sáh is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Czech, fathom (a measure of length corresponding to the outstretched arms, standardised to six feet)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sáh a male or female name?
- Sáh is a female 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sáh?
- In India, the national register counted about 4.6 million people named Sahu, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Bangladesh, Vietnam, Brazil and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sáh?
- In India, the national register counted 4,643,497 people named Sahu, about 1 in 286 residents.
- How common is Sáh compared with other names?
- In India, Sáh is the 8th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sáh?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A1hThe 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, “Sáh” — ranked 3rd in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.