Saikat
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/seɪkæt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Saikat is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Transliteration of Bengali সৈকত (śōikot, “seashore, sandbank”), from Sanskrit सैकत (saikata), from सिकता (sikatā, “gravel, sand”).
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 4.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M
- SGSingapore≈1 in 151K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈40,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Bengaliসৈকতśōikot“seashore, sandbank”(measured from records)
- Sanskritसैकतsaikata(measured from records)
- Sanskrit rootसिकताsikatā“gravel, sand”(measured from records)
Transliteration of Bengali সৈকত (śōikot, “seashore, sandbank”), from Sanskrit सैकत (saikata), from सिकता (sikatā, “gravel, sand”).
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Saikat 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #515 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | listed | Saikat | 56 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Saikat | 5 |
| US United States | — | 185 | 1 in 1.8M | 185 | Saikat | 123 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 390K | — | Saikat | 6 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 411K | — | Saikat | 7 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Saikat | 12 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 352K | listed | — | 1 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the ee-siseministeerium-registry 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)
Saikat 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 English, A male given name from Bengali used in India.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Saikat Chakrabartib. 1986USAmerican political activist (born 1986)
- Saikat Chakrabortyb. 2000researcher (ORCID 0000-0002-6307-8441)
- Saikat KunduGBresearcher
- Saikat Mukhopadhyayresearcher (ORCID 0000-0003-4790-3090)
- Saikat NandiGBresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-5693-6129)
- Saikat ChowdhuryUSresearcher (ORCID 0000-0001-8043-5028)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 185 | #40,339 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Saikat mean, and where does it come from?
- Transliteration of Bengali সৈকত (śōikot, “seashore, sandbank”), from Sanskrit सैकत (saikata), from सिकता (sikatā, “gravel, sand”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Saikat?
- A machine transcription gives /seɪkæt/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Saikat a male or female name?
- Saikat is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Saikat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 40 thousand people named Saikat in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saikat.
- How common is the name Saikat?
- In the United States, the national register counted 185 people named Saikat in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
- How common is Saikat compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Saikat is the 515th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Saikat?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saikatThe 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, “Saikat” — the 515th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.