Sagara
loc · Latin script
Meaning: “the ocean”. Jina (N); Siirya (N); Visnu (N)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sagara is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.3Kas Sagor(inferred from the name graph)
- THThailand≈1 in 1.9Kas สาคร
- USUnited States1 in 107Kas Sagar
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 Sagara 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 302 (measured from records)
- 1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 named Sagor, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
18 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled สาคร in TH Thailand, ID Indonesia, Sagor in BD Bangladesh, US United States, Salam in MY Malaysia, PK Pakistan and Sakol in SE Sweden.
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)
“the ocean”. Jina (N); Siirya (N); Visnu (N)
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sagara 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 165 | Sagor | 81 |
| TH Thailand | #121 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | #174,623 | สาคร | 96 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Salam | 41 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | สาคร | 36 |
| US United States | — | 3,099as Sagar | 1 in 107K | 3.1K | Sagor | 302 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Salam | 22 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,325as Salam | 1 in 7.7K | 1.3K | Sakol | 20 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1 | 1 in 750K | 30 | — | 2 |
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: Bangladeshi name database containing surnames and first names categorized by gender and frequency.; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Sagara is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In pi, A mythical king of the line of Okkāka. He had sixty thousand sons, who ruled in as many towns in Jambudīpa.’ CV I lxxxvii. 34; the legend of Sagara and his sons is given in the Mahābhārata (iii. 106 ff.). saṅkappa Vagga ] 973
as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
ocean
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
In Javanese, romanization of ꦱꦒꦫ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hausa, pullet (young hen)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Senindiešu mitoloģijā - Saules dinastijas valdnieks
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Sagara Taketōb. 1498JPsamurai
- Sagara Yorifusab. 1574JPJapanese samurai
- Sagara Chianb. 1836JPJapanese physician and bureaucrat
- Sagara Sōzōb. 1839JPsamurai (1839–1868)
- Sagara Yorimotob. 1841(1841-1885)
- Yae Sagarab. 1913JPJapanese athletics competitor
- Tōru Sagarab. 1921JPJapanese philosopher (1921–2000)
- Naohiko Sagarab. 1938JPbotanist
- Naomi Sagarab. 1945JPJapanese singer, composer and animal welfare businesswoman
- Itsuki Sagarab. 1995JPJapanese actress
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 21 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 240 | #74,957 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 225 | #83,541 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 204 | #95,802 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 Sagara mean, and where does it come from?
- “the ocean”. Jina (N); Siirya (N); Visnu (N) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- In which country does Sagara have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 122 thousand people named Sagor in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sagara most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sagara is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though Bangladesh holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sagara?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 1 people named Sagara in 2025, about 1 in 750 thousand residents.
- How common is Sagara compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Sagara is the 121st most common given name of 488,147 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sagaraThe 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, “Sagara” — the 121st most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.