Saji

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Susie in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 10 more, Susy in BR Brazil, PE Peru, MX Mexico and 7 more, Suzy in FR France, NL Netherlands, BE Belgium and 수지 in KR South Korea.

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.

Languages●

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◐

Saji is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name9.2K records spelled Saji5 spellings in the group

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

  Languages: English, German

  Also written Sàji, Ṣāji

• a separate given name2.7K records spelled Saji3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States

  Also written Ṣāji, Sāji

• Assamese given name2.1K records spelled Saji4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, United States

  Languages: Assamese, Bangla

  Also written ସାଜୁ

• Spanish given name2.1K records spelled Saji3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Peru, Philippines

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Ṣājī

51 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●

Saji is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In xgn-pro, 1 good 2 beautiful

  as a word·StarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

• In tut-pro, to notch, pierce

  as a word·StarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

• In Czech, first-person singular present of sát

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of さじ

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In kaw, necessity, requisite.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Albanian, hers

  as a word·kaikki.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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 82 years between 1916–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Saji Naokageb. 1896JPJapanese soldier
• Shigeko Sajib. 1935JPJapanese conductor
• Naoki Sajib. 2000JPresearcher

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 192 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Saji?

We estimate roughly 43 thousand people bear Saji (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Saji have the most bearers?

Saji is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled saji.

How common is Saji compared with other names?

In Singapore, Saji is the 358th most common given name of 46,862 given names recorded there.

Is Saji a male or female name?

Saji 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.