Sain

surname · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Sain is a surname, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 92nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: To make the sign of the cross on or over something or someone.

rarermore common
  • YEYemen1 in 15◐
  • CZCzechia1 in 282
  • TRTürkiye1 in 416

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈258K ●

across 9 countries

#444 ●

of 16M given names

12 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
408 ●

4.5M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 250 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

SoniLatin · Hindi●1.8M records
СанияCyrillic · Russian●144K records
선아Hangul · Korean●37K records
ᲡონაGeorgian · Georgian●2.6K records
สุนาThai · Thai●2.4K records
שאנהHebrew · Hebrew●371 records
ՍոնաArmenian · Armenian●228 records
সানBengali · Bangla●24 records
సనTelugu · Telugu●1 records
ΣοναGreek · Greek●1 records
ਸੁਨGurmukhi · Punjabi●1 records
සේනSinhala · Sinhala●0 records

20 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sana in FR France, PK Pakistan, ES Spain and 2 more, Shauna in US United States, CA Canada, AU Australia and 1 more, Jona in PH Philippines, FI Finland, BR Brazil and 1 more and Сания in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.

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●

To make the sign of the cross on or over something or someone.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Sain is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#924,416,5151.9M rec.—218KSoni273
TR Türkiye#321877,312953K rec.—#94Şen103
YE Yemen—267,173236 rec.——Sanaa14
RU Russia#243175,13157K rec.—#122Сания127
US United States#433164,680957K rec.1 in 2K165KShauna408
TH Thailand#119148,56785K rec.—#92,533สุนีย์128
NG Nigeria#39117,517129K rec.—listedSani76
GB United Kingdom#39870,08358K rec.—36Shona159
PK Pakistan#9159,5828.3K rec.—listedSana113
KR South Korea#20557,05229K rec.—1M선아146
PH Philippines#56839,36234K rec.—32KJona74
CZ Czechia#11137,906△2.7K rec.1 in 28238KSona95

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi157K48%
  • 70K22%
  • English49K15%
  • Spanish9.1K3%
  • Urdu5K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi157,45248%
70,10522%
English48,98215%
Spanish9,0933%
Urdu4,9612%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Sain is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname75K records spelled Sain4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, United Kingdom

    Also written Saïn, Šaĭn, Šain

  • English surname59K records spelled Sain20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Philippines

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Saín, Saein, Šain, Sa'In, Sa-In

  • Spanish surname14K records spelled Sain15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Colombia, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Saín, Sąîń, Şäïń, Sáin, Säïn

  • Hindi given name5.3K records spelled Sain98 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Thailand, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Thai

    Also written Saina, Shaina, ไซนะ, ไซน๊ะ, ไซนา

  • Indonesian surname5.2K records spelled Sain4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, Indonesia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Sa'In

  • Turkish surname4.4K records spelled Sain15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Germany, Belgium

    Languages: Turkish, Chinese, German

    Also written Sayın, Şain, Şayın, Šain

  • Hindi surname3.1K records spelled Sain12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Languages: Hindi, Punjabi, Marathi

    Also written Saaee, ਸਾਂਈ, Sani, Saaii, Sai

  • French surname2.3K records spelled Sain7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Saïn, Șain, Šain, Sâin, Sàîn

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Sain 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 Italian, do lat. sagina; nos dialetos setentrionais, ligado ao produtor/mercador de sorgo.

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Finnish, first-person singular past indicative of saada

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Estonian, first-person singular past indicative of saama

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In enm, alternative form of seien

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, healthy; in good health

    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●

0204060194019601980200046 · 1967

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Sain in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1921–2015
Yearrecords
19211
19221
19243
19262
19271
19281
19292
19302
19312
19321
19332
19347
19359
19361
19378
19384
193910
19407
19418
19427
194312
194411
194511
194610
194710
194812
194911
195013
195115
195218
19537
195415
195521
195623
195718
195815
195918
196017
196122
196236
196326
196435
196532
196620
196746
196825
196934
197041
197129
197239
197319
197438
197529
197637
197726
197837
197931
198029
198132
198231
198335
198429
198543
198642
198729
198834
198926
199021
199122
199224
199337
199431
199515
199613
199713
19989
20082
20092
20101
20112
20124
20134
20141
20153

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 84 years between 1921–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000Édouard Sain, b. 1830Isidoro Sain, b. 1869Kanwar Sain, b. 1899Orlando Sain, b. 1912Johnny Sain, b. 1917Oliver Sain, b. 1932Pappu Sain, b. 1956Sameer Sain, b. 1971Aruzhan Sain, b. 1976Rene Sain, b. 1997

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 38 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Sain
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—21K#58
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—18K#661
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020104.7K#7,155
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020004.4K#7,019
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020204.4K#7,371
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—721—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020117#47,857
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—114#57,408
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—92#29,247
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—92#29,046
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202160#11,655
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202149—

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 293 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sain?
We estimate roughly 258 thousand people bear Sain (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Sain have the most bearers?
Sain is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled soni.
How common is Sain compared with other names?
In India, Sain is the 92nd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
What does the name Sain mean?
Recorded meaning: To make the sign of the cross on or over something or someone.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Sain” — the 92nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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