Sawley
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɔɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sawley is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 63Kas Soli(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 429Kas Soli
- BRBrazil1 in 670Kas Soli
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sawley 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- 1 in 63K (inferred from the name graph)
316 named Soli, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden, as Soli
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Sawley 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 316as Soli | 1 in 670K | 383 | — | — |
| US United States | 241as Soli | 1 in 1.4M | 640 | — | 7 |
| SE Sweden | 161as Soli | 1 in 63K | 161 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 13as Soli | 1 in 429K | 35 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 7as Soli | 1 in 838K | 7 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 5as Soly | 1 in 1M | 5 | — | — |
316 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- George Sawleyb. 1904USSet decorator, Art director (1904–1967)
- Gordon Sawleyb. 1913AUAustralian rules footballer (1913-1942)
- Albert Sawleyb. 1915AUAustralian rules footballer (1915-1983)
- Alfred SawleyGBEnglish 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Sawley?
- A machine transcription gives /sɔɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sawley have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 316 people named Soli, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sawley most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Sawley itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Sweden's: the national register counts about 1 in 63 thousand people named Soli.
- How common is the name Sawley?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 316 people named Soli in 2022, about 1 in 670 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sawley?
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/sawleyThe 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, “Sawley”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.