Sabato

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Italian: Saturday

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

/sɑˈbɑtoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sabato is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 468K(measured from records)
  • ITItaly≈1 in 14K
  • TZTanzania≈1 in 15K

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,300 people, est.

Sources
190 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Saturday

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

How Sabato is read(measured from records)

Sabato is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English41%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Sabato in English.

  • Spanish21%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Sabato in Spanish.

  • Italian12%

    Saturday

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

    variante regional setentrional de Sabbato

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

    Dal latino sabbatum, dal greco sábbaton 'sabato'; anche per nati di sabato santo.

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  • Swahili6.9%

    Sabbath

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

  • Portuguese5.1%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Sabato in Portuguese.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sabato 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 Sabato is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy—≈4,300 est.≈1 in 14K9Sabato36
TZ Tanzania—≈3,800 est.≈1 in 15K—Sabato8
US United States—7111 in 468K729Sabato190
KE Kenya—≈560 est.≈1 in 95K—Sabato6
CH Switzerland—2551 in 33K255—15
UY Uruguay—371 in 92K37——
BM Bermuda#575≈2 est.≈1 in 36K—Sabato1

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); 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)

Sabato is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Italy, United States, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Italian

    Also written Sabàto, Sábato, Sàbàtò

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Italy, United States, Switzerland

    Also written Sábato, Sabàto

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Sábato

46 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)

Sabato is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In cdo, agee sali

    as a wordDictionary of the Foochow 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019502000Ernesto Sabato, b. 1911Jorge Federico Sabato, b. 1938Hilda Sabato, b. 1947Haim Sabato, b. 1952Larry Sabato, b. 1952Antonio Sabato, b. 1958Raffaele Sabato, b. 1960Simona Sabato, b. 1964Rocco Sabato, b. 1982Aaron Sabato, b. 1999

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Sabato,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 34 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Sabato
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020729#33,611
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000722#30,516
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010711#32,365
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024255#5,086
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—37—
IT ItalyDizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978)———
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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 Sabato mean, and where does it come from?
Saturday Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Sabato?
In the etymology graph, Sabbath is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Sabato?
A machine transcription gives /sɑˈbɑtoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Sabato have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Sabato in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sabato.
How common is the name Sabato?
In the United States, the national register counted 711 people named Sabato in 2010, about 1 in 468 thousand residents.
How common is Sabato compared with other names?
In Bermuda, Sabato is the 575th most common surname of 6,699 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, “Sabato” — the 575th most common surname in Bermuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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