Saggar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A ceramic container used inside a fuel-fired kiln to protect pots from the flame
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/sæɡə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Saggar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 3M(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 7.3M
- NONorway1 in 249K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- 1 in 249K (inferred from the name graph)
≈390 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A ceramic container used inside a fuel-fired kiln to protect pots from the flame.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Saggar 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 599K | — | Saggar | 7 |
| IN India | 181 | 1 in 7.3M | 181 | Saggar | 63 |
| US United States | 112 | 1 in 3M | 130 | Saggar | 111 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 607K | 143 | Saggar | 64 |
| CA Canada | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 698K | — | Saggar | 33 |
| AU Australia | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 719K | — | Saggar | 33 |
| NO Norway | 22 | 1 in 249K | 22 | Saggar | 3 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)Saggar 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 Swedish, present indicative of sagga
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 181 | #18,998 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 143 | #26,388 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 130 | #134,631 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 112 | #147,253 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 43 | #6,644 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 22 | #41,426 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 15 | #19,065 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 12 | #1,386 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 8 | #24,982 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 7 | #6,676 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Saggar mean, and where does it come from?
- A ceramic container used inside a fuel-fired kiln to protect pots from the flame. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Saggar?
- A machine transcription gives /sæɡə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Saggar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 390 people named Saggar in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saggar.
- Where is Saggar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Saggar is densest in Norway — about 1 in 249 thousand people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Saggar?
- In India, the national register counted 181 people named Saggar, about 1 in 7.3 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saggarThe 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, “Saggar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.