Saveli
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/seʋʎi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Saveli is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 4.6Kas Савелий(inferred from the name graph)
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 9Kas Савелий
- UAUkraine≈1 in 29Kas Савелій
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 Saveli 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- 1 in 265K (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 named Савелий, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Савелий in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, CN China and 2 more, Savelii in PL Poland, MD Moldova and Савелій in UA Ukraine.
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
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)
Saveli 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #254 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | #76 | Савелий | 162 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #903 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 9K | 2.8K | Савелий | 34 |
| UA Ukraine | #381 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 29K | listed | Савелій | 37 |
| CN China | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Савелий | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 390as Savelii | 1 in 98K | 390 | Savelii | 5 |
| MD Moldova | — | 371as Savelii | 1 in 9.1K | 371 | Savelii | 3 |
| BY Belarus | #342 | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Савелий | 20 |
| FI Finland | — | 21 | 1 in 265K | 65 | Савелий | 1 |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); e-services.md — living population register; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Saveli 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.
Russian: from the Late Latin personal name Sabellius , originally an ethnic name denoting a member of the Italian tribe of the Sabelli, displaced by the Romans. The saint venerated under this name, executed under Julian the Apostate in 362, was Persian, and his original name may have been cognate with that discussed at SAVA .
as a word
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)
- Savely Abramovitch Sorineb. 1878USnot in their usual nameRussian artist (1878–1953)
- Savielly Tartakowerb. 1887FRnot in their usual namePolish and French chess player (1887–1956)
- Sava Myroniukb. 1903UAnot in their usual nameRighteous Among the Nations
- Savely Moiseevich Feinbergb. 1910AZnot in their usual nameSoviet nuclear physicist
- Savely Kramarovb. 1934USnot in their usual nameSoviet actor (1934-1995)
- Savva Yamshchikovb. 1938RUnot in their usual nameArt historian, Restorer (1938–2009)
- Saveliy Dudakovb. 1939ILnot in their usual nameRussian-Israeli philologist and historian
- Saveliy Golubovb. 2000RUnot in their usual nameRussian chess player
- Saveliy Korostelevb. 2003RUnot in their usual nameRussian cross-country skier
- Savelii Laptevb. 2004RUcyclist
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 303 | #569 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 150 | #1,581 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 142 | #1,527 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 65 | #4,257 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 40 | #8,157 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 21 | — |
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
- What are other forms of the name Saveli?
- In the etymology graph, Saveliy is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Saveli?
- A machine transcription gives /seʋʎi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Saveli a male or female name?
- Saveli 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 Saveli have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Савелий in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Saveli most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Saveli is densest in Finland — about 1 in 265 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Saveli?
- In Finland, the national register counted 21 people named Saveli, about 1 in 265 thousand residents.
- How common is Saveli compared with other names?
- In Russia, Saveli is the 254th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Saveli?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saveliThe 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, “Saveli” — the 254th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.