Saari

surname · Latin script

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

Saari is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: island (contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water).

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 322(measured from records)
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 8.4K
  • USUnited States1 in 118K

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.

Finland (measured from records)

17,288 people

Sources
160 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 322 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

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:

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)

island (contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Saari 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 Saari is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland#11317,2881 in 32217KSaari106
MY Malaysia#369≈3,900 est.≈1 in 8.4K—Saari46
US United States—2,8081 in 118K2.9KSaari160
ID Indonesia—≈2,700 est.≈1 in 99K—Saari39
CN China—≈2,200 est.≈1 in 646K—Saari3
SE Sweden—4481 in 23K448Saari34
CU Cuba—≈330 est.≈1 in 34K—Saari1
EE Estonia—≈26 est.≈1 in 47K20Saari7

17,288 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)

Saari is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Norwegian

    Also written Sa'Ari, Sa’ari, Şaari

  • Swahili surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Sweden, United Kingdom

    Also written Şaari

  • Arabic surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States, Syria, Egypt

    Also written Sa'Ari, Şaari, Sáárï, Sä'Äŕï, Sààri

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Saári

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Finland, United States, India

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Sa'Ari

  • Thai given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Malaysia, United States, Finland

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written สะอารี, Saaree, Saarri, ส๊ะอารี, สะอาร

39 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)

Saari 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 Yoruba, suhur, a pre-dawn breakfast during the Ramadan fasting

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

  • In Latvian, second-person singular past indicative of saart

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

  • In Estonian, partitive plural of saar

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

  • In izh, island

    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)

19201940196019802000Kyllikki Saari, b. 1935Roy Saari, b. 1945Wimme Saari, b. 1959Rami Saari, b. 1963Henry Saari, b. 1964Kirsikka Saari, b. 1973Irina Saari, b. 1975Arto Saari, b. 1981Maija Saari, b. 1986Saila Saari, b. 1989

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Saari
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—17K#66
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—7.8K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.9K#10,307
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.8K#11,257
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.7K#11,290
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—448#2,048
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—20#5,474
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—20#5,647
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Saari mean, and where does it come from?
island (contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Saari have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Saari, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saari.
Where is Saari most common?
Saari is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 322 people carrying it.
How common is the name Saari?
In Finland, the national register counted 17,288 people named Saari, about 1 in 322 residents.
How common is Saari compared with other names?
In Finland, Saari is the 113th most common surname of 94,499 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, “Saari” — the 113th most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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