Saga
given name · Finnish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Saga is a given name, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Danish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: definite feminine singular of sag.
- FIFinland1 in 1.5K◐
- USUnited States1 in 866K
- CNChina1 in 1.6M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈29K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 110 ●
- 1 in 499 ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
3.4K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jiajia in CN China, US United States, ES Spain and 18 more and Säga in EE Estonia.
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●
definite feminine singular of sag
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | — | 20,431△ | 114 rec. | 1 in 499 | 20K | Saga | 22 |
| FI Finland | #603 | 3,723△ | 55 rec. | 1 in 1.5K | 5.5K | Saga | 18 |
| DK Denmark | — | 2,250 | — | 1 in 2.6K | 2.3K | — | — |
| CN China | — | 2,207 | 511 rec. | — | — | Jiajia | 66 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,828△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 3K | 6.1K | — | 2 |
| AU Australia | — | 486 | 462 rec. | — | 1 | Jiajia | 36 |
| IS Iceland | — | 426 | — | 1 in 823 | 426 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 384 | 1.2K rec. | 1 in 866K | 384 | Jiajia | 110 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 188 | 92 rec. | — | — | Jiajia | 28 |
| TW Taiwan | — | 187 | 39 rec. | — | — | Jiajia | 22 |
| ES Spain | — | 177△ | 35 rec. | 1 in 283K | 177 | Jiajia | 15 |
| FR France | — | 150 | 124 rec. | — | — | Jiajia | 48 |
Roughly 20K people in Sweden bear this name (about 1 in 499). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Finnish20K41%
- Danish6.5K13%
- Norwegian Bokmål6.1K12%
- Swedish3.8K8%
- Hindi3K6%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish | 20,454 | 41% |
| Danish | 6,476 | 13% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 6,084 | 12% |
| Swedish | 3,758 | 8% |
| Hindi | 2,994 | 6% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Saga is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, a fairy tale
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, weibl. Vom. schwedischer Herkunft (schwed. sag» »Erzählung, Bericht«). In der nordischen Mythologie ist Saga ein Beiname der Göttin Frigg(a).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Russian, Senka Saga, peasant. 1539.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In zlm, the "crabo eye" or seed of Abrus precatorius (used as a measure of weight for gold and therefore as a standard of value)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In English, An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1925 | 1 |
| 1927 | 1 |
| 1929 | 1 |
| 1930 | 1 |
| 1931 | 1 |
| 1932 | 2 |
| 1934 | 1 |
| 1935 | 1 |
| 1936 | 2 |
| 1937 | 1 |
| 1938 | 1 |
| 1939 | 4 |
| 1940 | 3 |
| 1941 | 1 |
| 1942 | 3 |
| 1943 | 1 |
| 1944 | 2 |
| 1945 | 2 |
| 1946 | 5 |
| 1947 | 5 |
| 1948 | 2 |
| 1949 | 3 |
| 1950 | 4 |
| 1951 | 8 |
| 1952 | 4 |
| 1953 | 2 |
| 1954 | 8 |
| 1955 | 7 |
| 1956 | 4 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1958 | 3 |
| 1959 | 7 |
| 1960 | 4 |
| 1961 | 4 |
| 1962 | 10 |
| 1963 | 12 |
| 1964 | 8 |
| 1965 | 6 |
| 1966 | 10 |
| 1967 | 7 |
| 1968 | 9 |
| 1969 | 9 |
| 1970 | 5 |
| 1971 | 6 |
| 1972 | 10 |
| 1973 | 5 |
| 1974 | 8 |
| 1975 | 6 |
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1978 | 7 |
| 1979 | 7 |
| 1980 | 4 |
| 1981 | 8 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 1984 | 5 |
| 1985 | 8 |
| 1986 | 8 |
| 1987 | 7 |
| 1988 | 7 |
| 1989 | 6 |
| 1990 | 7 |
| 1991 | 8 |
| 1992 | 6 |
| 1993 | 8 |
| 1994 | 8 |
| 1995 | 9 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1997 | 4 |
| 1998 | 1 |
| 2008 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 78 years between 1920–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Saga Sjöbergb. 1911SESwedish actress and singer
- Hiro Sagab. 1914CNJapanese noblewoman (1914–1987)
- Saga Kazamib. 1963JPJapanese composer
- Saga Garðarsdóttirb. 1987ISIcelandic film actress
- Saga Beckerb. 1988SESwedish actress
- Saga Sarkolab. 1994FIFinnish actress (born 1994)
- Saga Fredrikssonb. 1994SEassociation football player
- Saga Anderssonb. 2000FIFinnish athlete
- Saga Vanninenb. 2003FIFinnish athletics competitor
- Ida-Lovab. 2004SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 56 sources across 27 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 2026-09-12 data build · 433 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Saga?
- We estimate roughly 29 thousand people bear Saga (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Saga have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 20 thousand people bear Saga in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled saga.
- Where is Saga most common?
- Saga is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 499 people carrying it.
- How common is Saga compared with other names?
- In Finland, Saga is the 603rd most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
- Is Saga a male or female name?
- Saga is a female 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.
- What does the name Saga mean?
- Recorded meaning: definite feminine singular of sag
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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, “Saga” — the 603rd most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.