Saey
surname · Dutch · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Saey is a surname, most frequently recorded in India. It appears chiefly in Dutch and English, written in the Latin script.
- BEBelgium1 in 11K◐
- MYMalaysia1 in 13K
- AUAustralia1 in 13K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈5.0K ●
- Sources
- 250 ●
- 1 in 15K ◐
across 6 countries
127K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Sai in IN India, US United States, AU Australia and 6 more, Say in GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines, CI Côte d’Ivoire and 4 more and Zay in BR Brazil, PL Poland, TN Tunisia and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 43,576 | 45K rec. | — | 8.6K | Sai | 157 |
| AU Australia | — | 8,528 | 9.2K rec. | — | 2 | Sai | 134 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 4,901 | 5.8K rec. | — | 70 | Sai | 51 |
| US United States | — | 4,129 | 52K rec. | 1 in 81K | 6.2K | Sai | 250 |
| BE Belgium | — | 3,511 | 515 rec. | — | 944 | Saey | 39 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,031 | 3.4K rec. | — | 3 | Say | 88 |
| PH Philippines | — | 1,857 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Say | 42 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,573 | 1.9K rec. | — | listed | Sai | 87 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,359 | 1.3K rec. | — | 2 | Sai | 68 |
| SG Singapore | #892 | 884 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Sai | 53 |
| SE Sweden | — | 679△ | 72 rec. | 1 in 15K | 679 | — | 10 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 514 | 299 rec. | — | 76 | Sai | 16 |
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Languages●
- Dutch2K36%
- English1.3K25%
- German1K18%
- French64112%
- Chinese1032%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | 1,988 | 36% |
| English | 1,343 | 25% |
| German | 1,004 | 18% |
| French | 641 | 12% |
| Chinese | 103 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 6 |
| 1901 | 10 |
| 1911 | 5 |
| 1921 | 8 |
| 1931 | 2 |
| 1941 | 9 |
| 1951 | 4 |
| 1961 | 6 |
| 1971 | 8 |
| 1981 | 7 |
| 1991 | 1 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 944 | #1,446 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 925 | #1,461 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 7 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 4 | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 16 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Saey?
- We estimate roughly 5.0 thousand people bear Saey (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Saey have the most bearers?
- Saey is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled sai.
- How common is Saey compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Saey is the 468th most common given name of 19,389 given names recorded there.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Saey” — the 468th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.