Sanai
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register), 2002
Sanai is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 124K(measured from records)
- INIndia≈1 in 170K
- DKDenmark≈1 in 1.8M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- 1 in 124K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sa'Nai in US United States.
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)Sanai 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 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 174K | 82 | Sanai | 19 |
| US United States | 2,681 | 1 in 124K | 2.6K | Sa'Nai | 125 |
| BR Brazil | 106 | 1 in 2M | 155 | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 4.7M | listed | — | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 16M | 36 | — | 26 |
| DK Denmark | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | 4 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Sanai is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, first-person singular past historic of sanare
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, second-person plural imperative of sanar
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 103 | #61,986 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 82 | #32,428 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 36 | #62,359 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 8 | #5,535 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 8 | #11,211 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #71,046 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #163,601 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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
- In which country does Sanai have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.3 thousand people named Sanai in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sanai.
- Where is Sanai most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sanai is densest in the United States — about 1 in 124 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sanai?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,681 people named Sanai in 2020, about 1 in 124 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sanai?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sanaiThe 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, “Sanai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.