Sai
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A handheld weapon with three prongs, used in some Oriental martial arts
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sai is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- JPJapan≈1 in 47K
- USUnited States1 in 58K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 315 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, 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 Sani in BD Bangladesh, PK Pakistan.
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)
A handheld weapon with three prongs, used in some Oriental martial arts.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sai 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 70 | Sai | 43 |
| US United States | — | 5,716 | 1 in 58K | 6.2K | Sai | 315 |
| BD Bangladesh | #956 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 34K | listed | Sani | 49 |
| JP Japan | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Sai | 71 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 169K | — | Sani | 13 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #449 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Sai | 65 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Sai | 55 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Sai | 11 |
| BH Bahrain | #267 | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Sai | 10 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity). 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)
Sai 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 Basque, vulture
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Vietnamese, not right, correct or proper; wrong, incorrect, improper, inaccurate, imprecise, erroneous, etc.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, initialism of sistema de alimentación ininterrumpida: UPS (uninterruptible power supply)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for South American Indian languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In shh, temporary bridge (e.g. a log lying across a stream).
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)
- Sai T Reddyb. 1980CHresearcher
- Sai Dhanshikab. 1989INIndian actress
- Sai Lokurb. 1989INIndian actress (born 1986)
- Sai Pallavib. 1992INIndian actress and influencer
- Sai Praneeth Bhamidipatib. 1992INIndian badminton player
- Sai Ketan Raob. 1994INIndian actor
- Sai Uttejitha Rao Chukkab. 1998INbadminton player
- Sai Pratheekb. 2000INbadminton player
- Sai Satya Sarvesh Yakalab. 2004INbadminton player
- Sai Lakeb. 2004AUAustralian male ice hockey player
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 63 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.1K | #3,586 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.6K | #3,586 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 85 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Sai mean, and where does it come from?
- A handheld weapon with three prongs, used in some Oriental martial arts. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Sai a male or female name?
- Sai 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.
- In which country does Sai have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.9 thousand people named Sai in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sai.
- How common is the name Sai?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,716 people named Sai in 2020, about 1 in 58 thousand residents.
- How common is Sai compared with other names?
- In Bahrain, Sai is the 267th most common given name of 6,583 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/saiThe 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, “Sai” — the 267th most common given name in Bahrain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.