Sa'

given name · Latin script

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

Sa' is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Short form of sina.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 168K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 364K
  • DKDenmark1 in 587K

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.

United States (measured from records)

1,975 people, 2020

Sources
94 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 168K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sá in US United States and Sa in ID Indonesia.

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)

Short form of sina

Sources 5

  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
  • Wiktionary
  • Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)
  • Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sa' 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 Sa' is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,9751 in 168K1.8KSá30
BR Brazil891 in 2.4M345K——
ID Indonesia≈76 est.≈1 in 3.5MlistedSa94
SE Sweden281 in 364K28—2
NL Netherlands251 in 691K31—6
DK Denmark101 in 587K5——
FI Finland61 in 929K40—1

1,975 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling sa. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

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

  • English given name118 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, Dutch, German

    Also written Sa, Sae, Sá, Sã, S-A

  • Spanish surname155 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in El Salvador, Brazil, Spain, Portugal

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Russian

    Also written Sa, Sá, Sã, Са, Să

  • French surname26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Senegal, Tunisia, Algeria

    Also written Sa, Sá, Sà, Sã, Sâ

  • Arabic given name172 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iraq, Egypt, Yemen, Algeria

    Also written Sa, Sä, Sâ, Sà, Šä

  • Polish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written S-A, Sa, Sá, Ś-A, Şa

6 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)

Sa' is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In ch, because

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In wuu, Any (not)

    as a wordA Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect

  • In wuu, Wherefore

    as a wordA Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect

  • In wuu, Where

    as a wordA Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

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

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Sa' mean, and where does it come from?
Short form of sina Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 3 other sources.
Is Sa' a male or female name?
Sa' is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Sa' have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Sa', more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sá.
Where is Sa' most common?
Sa' is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 168 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Sa'?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,975 people named Sa' in 2020, about 1 in 168 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, “Sa'”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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