Saikali

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/saikali/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated

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

  • CACanada≈1 in 520Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • BEBelgium1 in 1.5M
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M

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.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈320 people, est.

Record sources
80 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)

Lebanon, 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.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Saikali 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 Saikali is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan≈320 est.≈1 in 775K—Saikali1
US United States1251 in 2.7M125Saikali80
LB Lebanon≈110 est.≈1 in 55K—Saikali6
CA Canada≈80 est.≈1 in 516K—Saikali37
BR Brazil531 in 4M53——
BE Belgium81 in 1.5M8Saikali4
AT Austria≈6 est.≈1 in 1.6M—Saikali5

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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, Canada

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Saïkali

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Canada

    Also written Saïkali

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Lebanon, Syria, Canada

    Also written Şaikali, Saïkali

28 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.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalDear Saikali,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Saikali
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010125#134,712
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020115#145,757
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—53#100,662
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20088#80,795
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • 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

How do you pronounce Saikali?
It depends on the language: in Swahili /saikali/; in Portuguese /ʃajkɐli/; in Spanish /saikali/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
In which country does Saikali have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 324 people named Saikali in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saikali.
How common is the name Saikali?
In the United States, the national register counted 125 people named Saikali in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.

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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, “Saikali”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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