Şağa

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Şağa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.2M(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 7.2K
  • UYUruguay1 in 125K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Norway (measured from records)

760 people

Sources
105 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Saga in US United States, IN India.

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)

From the Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ. Cognate with Old English sagu (English saw); Old Frisian sege; Old High German saga (German Sage); Old Danish saghæ, Old Swedish sagha, Faroese søga, Nynorsk soge, Jutlandic save (“a narrative, a narration, a tale, a report”), Swedish saga. Perhaps related to Lithuanian pasaka. Compare with segja (“to say, to tell”) and sögn (“a story”).

Sources 4

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Şağa 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 Şağa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway7601 in 7.2K6.1K—19
BR Brazil3061 in 692K306——
IN India3041 in 4.4M304Saga19
US United States1521 in 2.2M204Saga105
PL Poland1001 in 383K51—1
UY Uruguay271 in 125K27——
FI Finland101 in 557K5.5K—9

760 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Şağa is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Philippines

    Also written Saga, Şaga

  • Kazakh surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kazakhstan

    Also written Saga, Сага

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Philippines, United States, Singapore

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Saga

  • Indonesian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, India

    Also written Saga

3 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Şağa under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Şağa mean, and where does it come from?
From the Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
In which country does Şağa have the most bearers?
In Norway, the national register counted about 760 people named Şağa, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Şağa most common?
Şağa is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.2 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Şağa?
In Norway, the national register counted 760 people named Şağa, about 1 in 7.2 thousand residents.

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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, “Şağa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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