Sasai
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/zɐʃaj/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Sasai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 116 people, counted by IBGE.
- BRBrazil1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 19M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8M (inferred from the name graph)
116 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Sasai
- Portuguese:/zɐʃaj/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Swahili:/sɑsai/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Sasai is found
(measured from records)Sasai 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.
116 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)Sasai 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 Basque, "Contra la enfermedad de la parálisis algunos pastores colocan en el cuello de la oveja y en forma de collar la planta llamada sasaie (G-goi)" Arin AEF 1955, 121. .
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)- Surai Sasaib. 1935JPJapanese Buddhist monk
- Ryuji Sasaib. 1961JPJapanese musician
- Yoshiki Sasaib. 1962JPJapanese physician, developmental biologist, stem-cell researcher and university teacher (1962–2014)
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)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Sasai?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /zɐʃaj/; in Swahili /sɑsai/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sasai?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 116 people named Sasai, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Sasai most common?
- Sasai is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.8 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sasai?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 116 people named Sasai, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Sasai?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sasaiThe 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, “Sasai” — ranked 56623rd in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.