Sarau
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sarau is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 1.3M(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain≈1 in 17M
- BRBrazil≈1 in 53M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3M (inferred from the name graph)
≈160 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Sarau 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Sarau | 4 |
| US United States | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 68M | listed | Sarau | 55 |
| BR Brazil | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 53M | 38 | — | — |
| ES Spain | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 17M | 12 | — | 1 |
| IN India | — | — | 1 | Sarau | 9 |
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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Sarau is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, soiree (formal evening reunion)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, party
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, Sarao, fiesta. Oba da alkarregaz plazaan edo sarauban edo bigiraan olgeetia. fB Olg 195. Sarauko jentiaren jantzi armatuba gaiti. Ib. 117. Denporarik geijena plazarik plaza, piestarik piesta, dantzarik danza, komedijarik komedija, saraurik sarau, bigirarik bigira, zezenetatik zezenetara, jokorik joko ta maitekerik maitekerijara iragoten dabeela? fB Ic II 278.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Christian Saraub. 1839USAmerican politician
- Jeff Saraub. 1954Australian rules footballer
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 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 38 | #126,822 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12 | #109,635 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #8,635 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Sarau a male or female name?
- Sarau is a male 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 Sarau have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 159 people named Sarau in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sarau.
- How common is the name Sarau?
- Mondonomo estimates about 160 people in Nigeria have Sarau as their first given name, about 1 in 1.3 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sarauThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Sarau”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.