Sajan
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sajan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 29K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 448K
- NPNepal≈1 in 1.1K
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.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 177 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nepal, 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)
Sajan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 2 | Sajan | 55 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Sajan | 22 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 211K | — | Sajan | 32 |
| US United States | 743 | 1 in 448K | 724 | Sajan | 177 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Sajan | 17 |
| SG Singapore | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Sajan | 13 |
| IS Iceland | 2 | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Sajan 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 Spanish, third-person plural present indicative of sajar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, First-person singular present form of sadama.
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)
- Sajan Krishna Tamrakarb. 1992NPbadminton player
- Sajan Lamichhaneb. 2001NPNepali cricket photographer and photojournalist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 334 | #64,360 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 222 | #84,463 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- Is Sajan a male or female name?
- Sajan is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Sajan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Sajan in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sajan.
- How common is the name Sajan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 743 people named Sajan in 2020, about 1 in 448 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sajanThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Sajan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.