Saw
surname · Latin script
Meaning: /in, -la v. Avxinie III 2, 3
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sɔ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Saw is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
/in, -la v. Avxinie III 2, 3. Siinpaltru v. Pet ru I A 3. Sanut v. Avxinie III 3. &taxa v. loan IV B 7. Sanziene v. Joan IV B 1. Saoani v. Sava 7. Saotesen v. S a v a 8. Saphila v. losif I 4. Sarafhn v. S er a f im 3. Saranda v. S a r an di 2. Saraein, -elti v. S er a f i m 6.
Sources 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Saw counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1.9K | — |
| IN India | — | 1.4K | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 430 | — |
| FI Finland | — | 81 | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 75 | — |
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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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)
Saw 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 Akan, v. [inf. a-] 1. to dance. — 2. to shake, syn. wosow, posow, popo, him; - ne ho saw, he trembles; n'aniwa saw, his eye-lashes quiver (a good or ill omen)
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In Akan, red. susuw, to wax old. Ne.9,2l. to be worn out. Je.38,ll. *su-ye, inf. producing the kind or fortn of, forming. Go. 4, 19
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In Akan, V. [red. sesaw] 1, to take up or gather from the ground
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
IATA airport code for Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport, which serves Istanbul, Turkey.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.
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)
- B. S. Sawb. 1930MYbadminton player
- Saw Swee Leongb. 1955MYbadminton player
- Leng Guan Sawb. 1962MYbotanist
- Yu Mon SawJPresearcher
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 38 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.9K | #7,194 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.5K | #6,529 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.4K | #4,124 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,192 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 715 | #924 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 691 | #33,121 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 430 | #12,757 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 412 | #48,196 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 193 | #7,194 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 81 | #3,540 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 75 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 47 | #24,136 |
Reference works 5
- 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
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Saw come from?
- /in, -la v. Avxinie III 2, 3. Siinpaltru v. Pet ru I A 3. Sanut v. Avxinie III 3. &taxa v. loan IV B 7. Sanziene v. Joan IV B 1. Saoani v. Sava 7. Saotesen v. S a v a 8. Saphila v. losif I 4. Recorded by Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc.
- How do you pronounce Saw?
- A machine transcription gives /sɔ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Saw mean?
- Recorded meaning: /in, -la v. Avxinie III 2, 3.
- In which country does Saw have the most bearers?
- Saw is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sawThe 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, “Saw”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.