Sanaei
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zænəeɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sanaei is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iran than in any other country.
- IRIran≈1 in 390K(inferred from the name graph)
- YEYemen≈1 in 638K
- ATAustria≈1 in 692K
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 Sanaei 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.
- Iran (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 67 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 390K (inferred from the name graph)
≈220 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Iran, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Санай in KZ Kazakhstan.
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)
Sanaei 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IR Iran | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 390K | — | Sanaei | 36 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | 189as Санай | 1 in 101K | 189 | Санай | 22 |
| IN India | 82as Sanai | 1 in 16M | 82 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 6.1M | 2.6K | Sanaei | 67 |
| YE Yemen | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 638K | — | Sanaei | 2 |
| AT Austria | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 692K | — | Sanaei | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 1as Sanai | 1 in 750K | 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Sanaei?
- A machine transcription gives /zænəeɪ/ (IPA) for Persian.
- In which country does Sanaei have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 218 people named Sanaei in Iran, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sanaei.
- How common is the name Sanaei?
- In Kazakhstan, the national register counted 189 people named Санай in 2021, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sanaei?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sanaeiThe 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, “Sanaei”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.