Saila

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Siva (N)

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/seɪɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Saila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 2.5K(measured from records)
  • BDBangladesh≈1 in 55K
  • QAQatar≈1 in 91K

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)

≈3,000 people, est.

Sources
86 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Siva (N)

Sources 1

  • Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Saila 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 Saila is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh≈3,000 est.≈1 in 55K—Saila29
FI Finland2,2191 in 2.5K2.5KSaila24
BR Brazil2811 in 753K281——
NG Nigeria≈210 est.≈1 in 1M—Saila9
US United States2021 in 1.6M194Saila86
SE Sweden861 in 119K86—6
QA Qatar≈27 est.≈1 in 91K—Saila2
LV Latvia171 in 111K17Saila7

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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in 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)

Saila is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Finnish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Sweden, India, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Säilä, Sailä, Säila, Šaila

  • Spanish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Brazil, India, Finland

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Säilä, Săilă, Sâïla, Sáila, Saíla

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Saïla, Śailā, Śaila, Säilä

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Şaila

  • Spanish surname184 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Argentina, United States, France

    Languages: Spanish, English, French

    Also written Sala, Sola, ศาลา, สละ, สีลา

  • French given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Finland, India

    Also written Saïla, Sâilâ, Säilä, Sáila

  • Thai surname33 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Philippines, United States, Finland

    Also written สายหล้า, ซุยลา, ไซลา, ทรายหล้า, สายลา

  • Turkish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, India, Syria, Finland

    Also written Şaila, Säilä

  • Swedish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Sweden, Finland, Denmark

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Säilä

33 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Saila is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Basque, "(V-m), hacer baza en el juego de naipes" A . v. sailada.

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

  • In Basque, " Sailla egin (V-m), empujar hacia arriba" A .

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Siekalas

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

1960197019801990Saila Quicklund, b. 1961Saila Purho, b. 1965Saila Susiluoto, b. 1971Saila Ruuth, b. 1981Saila Kinni, b. 1987Saila Saari, b. 1989

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)

Informalनमस्ते Saila जी,Hi Saila, (English)

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 43 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Saila
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—2.5K#486
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—2.2K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022281—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—279#19,968
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—237#12,521
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2020236—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—222#23,768
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020194#38,175
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2010153—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—86#9,439
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)201083—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)200078—

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)

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 Saila?
A machine transcription gives /seɪɫə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
What does the name Saila mean, and where does it come from?
Siva (N) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
Is Saila a male or female name?
Saila is a female 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 Saila have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Saila in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saila.
Where is Saila most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Saila is densest in Finland — about 1 in 2.5 thousand people — even though Bangladesh holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Saila?
In Finland, the national register counted 2,219 people named Saila, about 1 in 2.5 thousand 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, “Saila”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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