Sat
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Seated; sitting (down) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries
Sat is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Sat is also written เสถียร in Thai, סיטה in Hebrew and সিট in Bengali.
- FIFinland1 in 225as Satu(measured from records)
- INIndia≈1 in 1.3Kas Sita
- GYGuyana1 in 1.7Kas Seeta
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 Sat 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- #893 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- 1 in 225 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100,000 named Sita, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland, as Satu
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Sat in other scripts: Latin, Thai, Hebrew and 5 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sita in IN India, ID Indonesia, QA Qatar, เสถียร in TH Thailand, Satu in FI Finland and Sati in TR Türkiye.
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
(measured from records)Seated; sitting (down).
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sat 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 | #112 | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 12K | Sita | 140 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | listed | Sita | 112 |
| TH Thailand | #346 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | register #173,359 | เสถียร | 86 |
| FI Finland | — | 24,714as Satu | 1 in 225 | 27K | Satu | 8 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | — | Sati | 9 |
| GY Guyana | #109 | 439as Seeta | 1 in 1.7K | 439 | Seeta | 5 |
| QA Qatar | #353 | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | — | Sita | 17 |
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; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Sat is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, alternative form of satis (“enough”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, clipping of satuan (“unit”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, clock, watch (instrument used to measure or keep track of time)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, first/third-person singular past active indicative of sitja
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, first/third-person singular past indicative active of sitja
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Eli Satb. 1939ILIsraeli poet
- Benny Sab. 1976CNnot in their usual nameChinese journalist
- Sa Xiangnot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 367616
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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sat mean, and where does it come from?
- Seated; sitting (down). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Sat a male or female name?
- Sat is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Sat?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Sita in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Indonesia, Thailand, Finland and Türkiye; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Sat most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Sat itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Finland's: the national register counts about 1 in 225 people named Satu.
- How common is the name Sat?
- In Finland, the national register counted 24,714 people named Satu, about 1 in 225 residents.
- How common is Sat compared with other names?
- In India, Sat is the 112th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sat?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/satThe 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, “Sat” — ranked 890th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.