Sáy
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sáy is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 3,302 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- NONorway1 in 64K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 101K
- FIFinland1 in 119K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- 1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)
3,302 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Say in IN India, US United States.
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)1. Düz, tabaka biçiminde, ince yassı taş. 2. İri, büyük kaya. 3. Arkadaş 4. Su kaynağı. 5. Elçi.
Cited for this meaning 5
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Sáy is found
(measured from records)Sáy 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,302 | 1 in 101K | 6.2K | Say | 24 |
| IN India | 859 | 1 in 1.5M | 859 | Say | 7 |
| AR Argentina | 104 | 1 in 437K | 104 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 86 | 1 in 64K | 86 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 76 | 1 in 227K | 76 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 64 | 1 in 183K | 64 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 47 | 1 in 119K | 51 | — | 1 |
3,302 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sáy a male or female name?
- Sáy 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sáy?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.3 thousand people named Sáy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled say. After it come India, Argentina, Norway and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Sáy most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sáy is densest in Norway — about 1 in 64 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sáy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,302 people named Sáy in 2010, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sáy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A1yThe 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, “Sáy” — ranked 5430th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.