Sakhu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sakhu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common surname.
- NPNepal≈1 in 40as Sah(inferred from the name graph)
- VNVietnam≈1 in 232as Ha
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 283as Saha
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 Sakhu 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)
- #56 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 272 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 40 (inferred from the name graph)
4,643,497 named Sahu
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est., as Sah
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sah in BR Brazil, NP Nepal, Sahu in IN India, Ha in VN Vietnam and Saha in BD Bangladesh.
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)
Sakhu 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 | #8 | 4,643,497as Sahu | 1 in 286 | 4.6M | Sahu | 262 |
| NP Nepal | #747 | ≈760,000 est. | ≈1 in 40 | 4 | Sah | 84 |
| BD Bangladesh | #22 | ≈570,000 est. | ≈1 in 283 | — | Saha | 120 |
| VN Vietnam | #29 | ≈430,000 est. | ≈1 in 232 | listed | Ha | 232 |
| BR Brazil | — | 344,780as Sa | 1 in 614 | 345K | Sah | 28 |
4,643,497 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1959 | 8 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1975 | 7 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1963 | 7 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1980 | 6 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1971 | 6 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1962 | 6 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1957 | 6 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1976 | 5 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1972 | 5 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1960 | 5 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1958 | 5 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1952 | 5 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sakhu a male or female name?
- Sakhu 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 Sakhu have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 4.6 million people named Sahu, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sakhu?
- In India, the national register counted 4,643,497 people named Sahu, about 1 in 286 residents.
- How common is Sakhu compared with other names?
- In India, Sakhu is the 8th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sakhu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sakhuThe 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, “Sakhu” — the 8th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.