Sanae
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sanae is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- MAMorocco≈1 in 749(inferred from the name graph)
- JPJapan≈1 in 2.2K
- ESSpain1 in 17K
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.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 749 (inferred from the name graph)
≈58,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Morocco, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sanae 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | #398 | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Sanae | 104 |
| MA Morocco | #434 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 749 | listed | Sanae | 27 |
| CN China | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | Sanae | 5 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,936 | 1 in 17K | 2.9K | Sanae | 26 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 1.1K | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 5 | Sanae | 13 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 727 | 1 in 24K | 727 | Sanae | 11 |
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: the ma-etatcivil-authorized-given-names register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns). 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)
Sanae is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, inflection of sānus:
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)
- Sanae Takasugib. 1918JPJapanese actress
- Sanae Nakaharab. 1935JPJapanese actor
- Sanae Kamijōb. 1950JPJapanese novelist
- Sanae Takagib. 1955JPJapanese voice actress
- Sanae Murakamib. 1960JPJapanese astrologer
- Sanae Takaichib. 1961JPJapanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan since 2025
- Sanae Tanakab. 1962JPJapanese lawyer
- Sanae Iijimab. 1963JPJapanese screenwriter
- Sanae Kimurab. 1974JPJapanese actress
- Sanae Nakajimab. 1978JPJapanese novelist
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 38 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.9K | #1,328 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.5K | #737 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1.1K | #3,238 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 727 | #1,591 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 709 | #2,567 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1999 | 39 | #263 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 1998 | 37 | #279 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2003 | 34 | #274 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2004 | 33 | #285 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 5 | #1,326 |
| MA Morocco | Liste des prénoms d'usage au Maroc — official authorized given-names list | — | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Sanae a male or female name?
- Sanae 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 Sanae have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 58 thousand people named Sanae in Japan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sanae.
- How common is the name Sanae?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,936 people named Sanae, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Sanae compared with other names?
- In Japan, Sanae is the 398th most common given name of 366,905 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/sanaeThe 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, “Sanae” — the 398th most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.