Sagaz
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: sagacious (having keen discernment)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sɐɡaʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sagaz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 112K(measured from records)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 80K
- UYUruguay1 in 154K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 80K (inferred from the name graph)
1,893 people
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
sagacious (having keen discernment)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Sagaz is read(measured from records)
Sagaz is one spelling over 3 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.
- Portuguese63%
sagacious (having keen discernment)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish25%
sagacious, prudent, visionary
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French7.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sagaz in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Sagaz 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.
1,893 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Attested in 7 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.9K | #5,134 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 52 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 39 | #52,964 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 39 | #52,638 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sagaz mean, and where does it come from?
- sagacious (having keen discernment) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sagaz?
- A machine transcription gives /sɐɡaʃ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Sagaz have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Sagaz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sagaz.
- How common is the name Sagaz?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,893 people named Sagaz, about 1 in 112 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sagaz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sagazThe 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, “Sagaz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.