Sayes

surname · Latin script

Meaning: third-person singular simple present indicative of saye

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/saʝes/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sayes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina1 in 56K
  • CLChile≈1 in 75K

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.

Argentina (measured from records)

819 people

Sources
39 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)

El Salvador, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

third-person singular simple present indicative of saye

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sayes 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.

Where Sayes is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina—8191 in 56K819Sayes39
EG Egypt—≈640 est.≈1 in 162K—Sayes25
SV El Salvador#578≈510 est.≈1 in 13K—Sayes19
US United States—2451 in 1.4M305Sayes36
CL Chile—≈240 est.≈1 in 75K—Sayes29
GT Guatemala—≈220 est.≈1 in 77K—Sayes10
SY Syria—≈220 est.≈1 in 88K—Sayes16

819 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sayes is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Peru

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Şayes, Šaýeś, Sayés

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Sayés, Şayes

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Sayés

  • Turkish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria, United States

    Also written Şayes, Şayeş

  • Danish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark

    Also written Şayeş

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Sayes is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Asturian, plural of saya

    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)

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)

FormalEstimado/a Sayes,Dear Sayes, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Sayes,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Sayes
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—819—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020305#69,365
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010245#78,040
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000233#76,700
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • 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 Sayes mean, and where does it come from?
third-person singular simple present indicative of saye Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Sayes?
A machine transcription gives /saʝes/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Sayes have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 819 people named Sayes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sayes.
How common is the name Sayes?
In Argentina, the national register counted 819 people named Sayes, about 1 in 56 thousand residents.
How common is Sayes compared with other names?
In El Salvador, Sayes is the 578th most common surname of 35,145 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Sayes” — the 578th most common surname in El Salvador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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