Saini
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sejɲi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Saini is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Punjabi ਸੈਣੀ (saiṇī).
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 13K
- CACanada≈1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Saini itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- #944 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 306 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
104,130 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Шаини in MK North Macedonia.
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)
Borrowed from Punjabi ਸੈਣੀ (saiṇī).
Sources 2
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Saini 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #158 | 104,130 | 1 in 13K | 104K | Saini | 271 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Saini | 72 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 1 | Saini | 46 |
| US United States | — | 3,711 | 1 in 90K | 5.8K | Saini | 306 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Saini | 34 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 2 | Saini | 147 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 726as Шаини | 1 in 2.9K | 726 | Шаини | 2 |
104,130 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); State Statistical Office — living population names. 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)
Saini is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, signature (person's autograph name)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A surname from Punjabi.
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)
- Guido Sainib. 1920ITItalian chemist (1920-2006)
- Deep Sainib. 1955CACanadian scientist, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill University
- Fulvio Sainib. 1962ITItalian footballer
- Gotelind Müller-Sainib. 1963DEGerman sinologist
- Fifi Masuka Sainib. 1967CDCongolese politician, interim governor of Lualaba
- Federica Saini Fasanottib. 1972ITItalian contemporary historian (born 1972)
- Asha Sainib. 1978INIndian actress
- Angela Sainib. 1980GBBritish science journalist
- Roman Sainib. 1991INIndian bureaucrat, entrepreneur
- Vikram Singh SainiINIndian politician
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 104K | #177 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 17K | #84 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.8K | #5,738 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.7K | #8,828 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #13,825 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Saini mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Punjabi ਸੈਣੀ (saiṇī). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Saini?
- A machine transcription gives /sejɲi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Saini have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 104 thousand people named Saini, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saini.
- How common is the name Saini?
- In India, the national register counted 104,130 people named Saini, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Saini compared with other names?
- In India, Saini is the 158th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sainiThe 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, “Saini” — the 158th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.