Sait
given name · Latin script
Meaning: surname form; related to OE/ON name elements, see context (A Dictionary of English Surnames)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 31 countries · latest register: ASK Kosovo, 2023
/saˈɪt/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Sait is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Sait is also written สะอีด in Thai.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- XKKosovo≈1 in 2.6K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 5.7Kfew records
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 Sait 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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈52,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Sait in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled สะอูดี in TH Thailand.
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.
How to pronounce Sait
- Turkish:/saˈɪt/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)surname form; related to OE/ON name elements, see context
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sait 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #148 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Sait | 106 |
| IN India | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 401K | 322 | Sait | 24 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Sait | 3 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 422 | — | 3 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 171K | register #174,822 | สะอูดี | 32 |
| CY Cyprus | #556 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Sait | 7 |
| AL Albania | — | 83 | 1 in 37K | 83 | — | — |
| MK North Macedonia | #230 | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Sait | 5 |
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: ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)Sait is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, 1. Kutlu, uğurlu. 2. İbadet etmiş, Tanrıya karşı görevini yapmış kimse.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In German, männl. Vom., türkische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In French, third-person singular present indicative of savoir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, second-person singular past indicative of saada
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, alternative form of site
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)- Halet Efendib. 1761TRnot in their usual nameOttoman diplomat and statesman (1760–1822)
- Sait Faik Abasıyanıkb. 1906TRTurkish writer of short stories and poetry (1906-1954)
- Sait Altınordub. 1912TRTurkish association football player (1912–1978)
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)53 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 31 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sait mean, and where does it come from?
- surname form; related to OE/ON name elements, see context Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- What are other forms of the name Sait?
- In the etymology graph, Suad, Seydou and SeaD are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Sait?
- In Turkish /saˈɪt/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Sait a male or female name?
- Sait is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Kosovo (ASK Kosovo) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Sait?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Sait in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sait. After it come India, Syria, Kosovo and Thailand; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sait?
- In Albania, the national register counted 83 people named Sait, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
- How common is Sait compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Sait is the 148th most common given name of 264,080 given names 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/saitThe 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, “Sait” — the 148th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.