Sarái
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Sarái is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Persian سرای (sarây, “courtyard; dwelling; palace”).
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 2.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- MXMexico≈1 in 4.9Kfew records
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 5.4Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 279 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈27,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
El Salvador, 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 Saraí in US United States, SV El Salvador, ES Spain and 4 more.
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)Borrowed from Persian سرای (sarây, “courtyard; dwelling; palace”).
Cited for this meaning 3
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sarái 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | — | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | 221 | Saraí | 172 |
| US United States | — | 18,137 | 1 in 18K | 18K | Saraí | 279 |
| ES Spain | — | 5,166 | 1 in 9.7K | 5.2K | Saraí | 118 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Saraí | 30 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Saraí | 36 |
| SV El Salvador | #345 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Saraí | 26 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 2,124 | 1 in 8K | 2.1K | — | 28 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Saraí | 18 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INEC — civil registry names; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset). 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sarái mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Persian سرای (sarây, “courtyard; dwelling; palace”). Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Is Sarái a male or female name?
- Sarái 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.
- In which country does Sarái have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 27 thousand people named Sarái in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saraí.
- How common is the name Sarái?
- In the United States, the national register counted 18,137 people named Sarái in 2020, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
- How common is Sarái compared with other names?
- In El Salvador, Sarái is the 345th most common given name of 28,124 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sar%C3%A1iThe 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, “Sarái” — the 345th most common given name in El Salvador. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.