Saule
given name · Latin script
Meaning: instrumental singular of saulė
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Saule is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kazakhstan than in any other country, where it is the 48th most common given name.
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 7K(inferred from the name graph)
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 384as Сауле
- RURussia≈1 in 28Kas Сауле
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 Saule 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.
- Kazakhstan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈50,000 named Сауле, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Lithuania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Сауле in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 more.
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)
instrumental singular of saulė
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Saule 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KZ Kazakhstan | #48 | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 384 | 3.3K | Сауле | 59 |
| RU Russia | #738 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 28K | #592 | Сауле | 128 |
| LT Lithuania | #397 | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | listed | Saule | 57 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #551 | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Сауле | 18 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Сауле | 12 |
| US United States | — | 171 | 1 in 1.9M | 156 | Saule | 91 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Saule 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 Italian, forma italiana de Saul.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Saul
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Latvian, sun (the star at the center of the Solar System, from which light and heat reach the Earth)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, One's fill; a sufficient amount of food.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, dative singular of Saul
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)
- Saulė Urbanavičienėb. 1957LTLithuanian archaeologist
- Saule Doszhanb. 1959KZKazakh writer
- Säule Omarovab. 1966USKazakh-American attorney and academic
- Saulė Degutytėb. 1969LTLithuanian stage actress
- Saule Kustavletovab. 1972KZbadminton player
- Saule Iskakovab. 1972RURussian actor-singer
- Saule Karibayevab. 1987KZKazakhstani footballer
- Saulė Bliuvaitėb. 1994LTscreenwriter and film director
- Saule KilaiteLTLithuanian violinist
- Saule JonynaiteLTLithuanian association football player
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 39 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- What does the name Saule mean, and where does it come from?
- instrumental singular of saulė Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Saule a male or female name?
- Saule 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.
- How common is the name Saule?
- In the United States, the national register counted 171 people named Saule in 2020, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
- How common is Saule compared with other names?
- In Kazakhstan, Saule is the 48th most common given name of 274,628 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Saule have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 50 thousand people named Сауле in Kazakhstan, more than in any other country we hold.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sauleThe 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, “Saule” — the 48th most common given name in Kazakhstan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.