Saniye

given name · Latin script

Meaning: second (unit of time)

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/s̪an̪ije/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Saniye is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 789(inferred from the name graph)
  • UZUzbekistan≈1 in 11K
  • CYCyprus≈1 in 14K

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.

Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)

≈100,000 people, est.

Sources
64 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 789 (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

second (unit of time)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Saniye 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.

Where Saniye is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#142≈100,000 est.≈1 in 789#58Saniye64
UZ Uzbekistan—≈2,900 est.≈1 in 11K—Saniye3
CN China—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 830K—Saniye4
AT Austria—≈380 est.≈1 in 24K12——
AZ Azerbaijan—≈280 est.≈1 in 37K—Saniye5
CY Cyprus#699≈92 est.≈1 in 14K—Saniye6
NL Netherlands—911 in 190K91Saniye12

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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Saniye is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Türkiye, Belgium

    Also written Saniyé

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Brazil, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Saniyé, Sanîyé

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Saniye 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 Turkish, 1. İkinci. 2. Dakikanın altmışta biri.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

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)

1850190019502000Saniye İffet Ugan, b. 1899Saniye Can, b. 1930Saniye Bildircin Saglambilek, b. 1946Gülden Karaböcek, b. 1953Lena Saniye Güngör, b. 1993Saniye Arslano, b. 1998

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalMerhaba Saniye,Hi Saniye, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.

Reference works 4

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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

What does the name Saniye mean, and where does it come from?
second (unit of time) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Saniye?
A machine transcription gives /s̪an̪ije/ (IPA) for Turkish.
Is Saniye a male or female name?
Saniye 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 Saniye have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 104 thousand people named Saniye in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saniye.
How common is the name Saniye?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 91 people named Saniye, about 1 in 190 thousand residents.
How common is Saniye compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Saniye is the 142nd most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saniye

The 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, “Saniye” — the 142nd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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