Saiga
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Saiga is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Japan.
- JPJapan
- KEKenya
- BRBrazil
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- JPJapan
- USUnited States
- KEKenya
- BRBrazil
- FRFrance
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Saiga is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In dag, private pit latrine for the chief; Singular cl. Definition Comment a a private cesspit
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In English, Saiga tatarica, an antelope which inhabits a vast area between Kalmykia, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, saiga (Saiga tatarica, an antelope of Siberia)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, saiga (Saiga tatarica)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kr, s. chain: icu saiga kdreskin, I make a chain
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
In dag, weevils that destroy grain
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
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)
- Akira Saigab. 1932JPJapanese screenwriter
- Fumiko Saigab. 1943JPJapanese judge (1943-2009)
- Yoshio Saigab. 1974JPJapanese actor
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 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 23 | #177,962 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #35,680 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 11 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #46,301 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 2 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 2 | #19,985 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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
- In which country does Saiga have the most bearers?
- Saiga is most frequently recorded in Japan.
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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, “Saiga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.