Sauli
given name · Latin script
Meaning: do nome Saulus; patronímico, 'filho de Saulus'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sauli is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 12K
- SESweden1 in 61K
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 Sauli 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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
do nome Saulus; patronímico, 'filho de Saulus'.
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sauli 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Sauli | 4 |
| FI Finland | #362 | 4,210 | 1 in 1.3K | 6.3K | Sauli | 78 |
| SE Sweden | — | 166 | 1 in 61K | 166 | Sauli | 19 |
| BR Brazil | — | 100 | 1 in 2.1M | 100 | — | — |
| US United States | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 8.5M | listed | Sauli | 32 |
| GE Georgia | — | 13as საული | 1 in 307K | 13 | Sauli | 4 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 141K | listed | Sauli | 4 |
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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API). 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)
Sauli 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 Italian, Variante di Saul
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Filipino, act of returning (of something borrowed or taken)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, accusative/instrumental singular of saule
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)
- Sauli Pällib. 1912FIFinnish ski jumper and Nordic combined skier
- Sauli Rytkyb. 1918FIcross-country skier (1918-2006)
- Sauli Hautalab. 1927FIFinnish politician
- Sauli Seppäläb. 1935FIFinnish actor
- Sauli Pietiläinenb. 1941FIFinnish association football player
- Sauli Niinistöb. 1948FIFinnish politician and the 12th President of Finland (2012-2024)
- Sauli Lehtonenb. 1975FIFinnish singer
- Sauli Vuotib. 1979FIFinnish singer
- Sauli Koskinenb. 1985FIFinnish television host
- Sauli Väisänenb. 1994FIFinnish 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 25 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 37 | #29,680 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 9 | #40,835 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Sauli mean?
- Recorded meaning: do nome Saulus; patronímico, 'filho de Saulus'.
- Is Sauli a male or female name?
- Sauli 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.
- What are other forms of the name Sauli?
- In the etymology graph, Saul and Saulius are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Sauli have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.0 thousand people named Sauli in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sauli.
- Where is Sauli most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sauli is densest in Finland — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though Tanzania holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sauli?
- In Finland, the national register counted 4,210 people named Sauli, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Sauli compared with other names?
- In Finland, Sauli is the 362nd most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sauliThe 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, “Sauli” — the 362nd most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.