Sakau
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Indonesian: to snatch, to rob, to steal (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Sakau is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Sakau is also written Сакау in Cyrillic.
- PLPoland1 in 2.9M(measured from records)
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 430Kfew recordsas Сакау
- RURussia≈1 in 1.8Mfew recordsas Сакау
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 Sakau itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9M (inferred from the name graph)
≈81 named Сакау, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Sakau in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Сакау in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye.
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)to snatch, to rob, to steal
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Sakau is read
(measured from records)Sakau is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Swahili40%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sakau in Swahili.
- Indonesian31%
to snatch, to rob, to steal
as a wordrecorded as Malaykaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
under withdrawal symptoms
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English11%
Kava (in Micronesian contexts).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Sakau is found
(measured from records)Sakau 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Сакау | 58 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 433K | — | Сакау | 22 |
| PL Poland | 13 | 1 in 2.9M | 13 | — | — |
| TR Türkiye | — | — | — | Сакау | 1 |
| BY Belarus | — | — | 1 | — | 1 |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE). 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)Sakau is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Lithuanian, first-person singular present of sakyti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In poz-oce-pro, small species of Malay apple
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In chk, drunk
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sakau mean, and where does it come from?
- to snatch, to rob, to steal Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sakau?
- Mondonomo estimates about 81 people named Сакау in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Kazakhstan and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Sakau most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sakau is densest in Poland — about 1 in 2.9 million people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sakau?
- In Poland, the national register counted 13 people named Sakau in 2026, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Sakau?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sakauThe 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, “Sakau”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.