Sawayo
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sawayo is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 409Kas Sawaya(measured from records)
- THThailand≈1 in 480Kfew recordsas สาวาโย
- BRBrazil1 in 980Kas Sawaya
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 Sawayo itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- 1 in 409K (inferred from the name graph)
813 named Sawaya, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States, as Sawaya
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sawaya in US United States and สาวาโย in TH Thailand.
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sawayo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 813as Sawaya | 1 in 409K | 852 | Sawaya | 11 |
| BR Brazil | 216as Sawaya | 1 in 980K | 216 | — | — |
| TH Thailand | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 480K | register #945,811 | สาวาโย | 30 |
| ES Spain | 22as Sawaya | 1 in 2.3M | 22 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 10as Sawaya | 1 in 4.5M | 10 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 4as Sawaya | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
813 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sawayo a male or female name?
- Sawayo is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Sawayo have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 813 people named Sawaya, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sawayo most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Sawayo itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is United States's: the national register counts about 1 in 409 thousand people named Sawaya.
- How common is the name Sawayo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 813 people named Sawaya in 2010, about 1 in 409 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sawayo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sawayoThe 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, “Sawayo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.