Sacayan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A small wooden trimaran used as a transport and fishing boat in the Philippines
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sacayan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 44K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 154K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 231K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A small wooden trimaran used as a transport and fishing boat in the Philippines.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sacayan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Sacayan | 38 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 231K | — | Sacayan | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 295 | 1 in 154K | 295 | Sacayan | 26 |
| GH Ghana | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Sacayan | 1 |
| US United States | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 17M | listed | Sacayan | 36 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 3M | — | Sacayan | 4 |
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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Sacayan 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 Cebuano, a surname from Cebuano
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 295 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sacayan mean, and where does it come from?
- A small wooden trimaran used as a transport and fishing boat in the Philippines. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Sacayan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Sacayan in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sacayan.
- How common is the name Sacayan?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 295 people named Sacayan, about 1 in 154 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sacayan?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sacayanThe 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, “Sacayan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.