Saï
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Saï is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks; Kent. see Sales . 2 English: the Kent name may be a variant of Seales .
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- JPJapan≈1 in 47K
- USUnited States1 in 58K
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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 315 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sai in US United States, JP Japan, MY Malaysia and 4 more and Sani in BD Bangladesh, PK Pakistan.
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)Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks; Kent. see Sales . 2 English: the Kent name may be a variant of Seales .
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Saï 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 70 | Sai | 43 |
| US United States | — | 5,716 | 1 in 58K | 6.2K | Sai | 315 |
| BD Bangladesh | #956 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 34K | listed | Sani | 49 |
| JP Japan | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Sai | 71 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 169K | — | Sani | 13 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #449 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Sai | 65 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Sai | 55 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Sai | 11 |
| BH Bahrain | #267 | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Sai | 10 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity). 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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Saï mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): WR Yorks; Kent. see Sales . 2 English: the Kent name may be a variant of Seales . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007).
- In which country does Saï have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.9 thousand people named Saï in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sai.
- How common is the name Saï?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,716 people named Saï in 2020, about 1 in 58 thousand residents.
- How common is Saï compared with other names?
- In Bahrain, Saï is the 267th most common given name of 6,583 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sa%C3%AFThe 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, “Saï” — the 267th most common given name in Bahrain. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.