Säde
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Estonian: sparkle
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Säde is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 3.1K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 36K
- USUnited States1 in 41K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
8,033 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sade in US United States, FI Finland.
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)
beam, ray (of light)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Säde is read(measured from records)
Säde is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Estonian37%
sparkle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Finnish22%
beam, ray (of light)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Säde in German.
- English7.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Säde in English.
- Spanish5.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Säde in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Säde 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 | 8,033 | 1 in 41K | 7.9K | Sade | 22 |
| FI Finland | 1,791 | 1 in 3.1K | 2.2K | Sade | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | 163 | 1 in 106K | 163 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 56 | 1 in 182K | 56 | — | 3 |
| ES Spain | 55 | 1 in 909K | 55 | — | — |
| AL Albania | 51 | 1 in 60K | 51 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 21 | 1 in 36K | 21 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 78K | 181 | Säde | 8 |
8,033 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)
Säde 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.
In Swedish, synonym of utsäde
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)
- Enn Sädeb. 1938EEEstonian film sound operator and film director (born 1938)
- Eevi Sädeb. 1943EEEstonian film editor (born 1943)
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 9 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 461 | #3,704 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 181 | #346 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 167 | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 165 | #342 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 15 | #31,328 |
Reference works 2
- 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 Säde mean?
- In Estonian, sparkle
- Where does the name Säde come from?
- beam, ray (of light) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Säde have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.0 thousand people named Säde, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sade.
- Where is Säde most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Säde is densest in Finland — about 1 in 3.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Säde?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,033 people named Säde in 2020, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Säde?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A4deThe 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, “Säde”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.