Saji
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/səʒi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Saji is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country.
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 1.6Kas 수지(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 4.7Kas Susy
- IEIreland≈1 in 5.1Kas Susie
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 Saji 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.
- South Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 492 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9M (inferred from the name graph)
≈32,000 named 수지, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Susie in US United States, GB United Kingdom, IT Italy and 3 more, 수지 in KR South Korea, Susy in PE Peru and Սյուզի in AM Armenia.
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
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)
Saji 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #413 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | 수지 | 73 |
| US United States | #577 | 29,902as Susie | 1 in 11K | 30K | Susie | 492 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | 5 | Susie | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | #558 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | 21 | Susie | 226 |
| PE Peru | #774 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Susy | 50 |
| IE Ireland | #316 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Susie | 67 |
| NZ New Zealand | #361 | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Susie | 67 |
| AM Armenia | #476 | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 99 | Սյուզի | 8 |
| PL Poland | — | 20 | 1 in 1.9M | 26 | Susie | 15 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia — Most Frequent Newborn Given Names by Sex, Armenian script, 2008-2020 + 2023; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Saji is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In xgn-pro, 1 good 2 beautiful
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In tut-pro, to notch, pierce
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Czech, first-person singular present of sát
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of さじ
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kaw, necessity, requisite.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Albanian, hers
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)
- Saji Naokageb. 1896JPJapanese soldier
- Shigeko Sajib. 1935JPJapanese conductor
- Naoki Sajib. 2000JPresearcher
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 35 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 457 | #49,659 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 276 | #70,833 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 26 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 26 | #76,974 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 21 | #87,652 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 10 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 10 | #137,076 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Saji?
- A machine transcription gives /səʒi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Saji a male or female name?
- Saji 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 Saji have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 32 thousand people named 수지 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Saji most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Saji is densest in Poland — about 1 in 1.9 million people — even though South Korea holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Saji?
- In Poland, the national register counted 20 people named Saji in 2026, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
- How common is Saji compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Saji is the 413th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Saji?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sajiThe 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, “Saji” — the 413th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.