Sabao
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
/saβao/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Sabao is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mozambique than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 84K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 320Kfew records
- ESSpain1 in 329K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mozambique (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 31 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mozambique, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Sabao is found
(measured from records)Sabao 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MZ Mozambique | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Sabao | 5 |
| AR Argentina | 539 | 1 in 84K | 539 | Sabao | 31 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Sabao | 4 |
| PH Philippines | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 319K | — | Sabao | 11 |
| ES Spain | 152 | 1 in 329K | 152 | Sabao | 23 |
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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Sabao?
- In Spanish /saβao/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sabao?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Sabao in Mozambique, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sabao. After it come Argentina, Zimbabwe, Philippines and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sabao?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 539 people named Sabao, about 1 in 84 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sabao?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sabaoThe 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, “Sabao”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.