Sav

surname · Hindi · Latin script

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

Sav is a surname, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 40th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: de sabellos, du pays de Saba, où d'origine hébraïque : de sa'el, demandé (à Dieu).

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 502◐
  • SGSingapore1 in 2.8K
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 3.8K

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

≈41K ●

across 10 countries

#501 ●

of 16M given names

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
257 ●

2.2M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 345 ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

ShivLatin · Hindi●3.3M records
ศิวะThai · Thai●2.7K records
শিবBengali · Bangla●439 records
శివTelugu · Telugu●42 records
ሲቡEthiopic · Amharic●3 records
시브Hangul · Korean●2 records
ᲨივაGeorgian · Georgian●1 records

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Shiva in US United States, SE Sweden, AU Australia and 9 more, Shiv in IN India, BR Brazil, NO Norway and 6 more, Siva in MY Malaysia, SG Singapore, AE United Arab Emirates and 4 more and ศิวะ in TH Thailand.

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●

recorded in French

de sabellos, du pays de Saba, où d'origine hébraïque : de sa'el, demandé (à Dieu).

Sources 1

  • Russian Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Sav is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#405,929,9692.1M rec.—195KShiv239
SE Sweden—29,590△220 rec.1 in 34530KShiva19
MY Malaysia#5549,37311K rec.——Siva64
NO Norway—6,999△128 rec.1 in 78118KShiv11
TH Thailand—6,7703.8K rec.—#174,733ศิวะ69
GB United Kingdom—6,1844.8K rec.—listedShiv93
AU Australia—5,2606.3K rec.—1Shiva103
SG Singapore#1743,8045.6K rec.——Siva64
CA Canada—2,9363.2K rec.—5Shiv69
SA Saudi Arabia#4732,507512 rec.—listedShiv23
US United States—2,20460K rec.1 in 151K2.2KShiva257
AE United Arab Emirates#1871,9592K rec.——Siva60

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

Languages●

  • Hindi293K74%
  • 79K20%
  • Turkish13K3%
  • English2.9K1%
  • Bangla1.9K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi293,19374%
79,45220%
Turkish12,6433%
English2,9331%
Bangla1,9251%

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◐

Sav is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish surname13K records spelled Sav4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, India, United States, Cyprus

    Also written Şav, Şåv

  • English surname5.0K records spelled Sav20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Bulgaria, Germany

    Languages: English, Bulgarian, German

    Also written Saev, Саев, Съев, Шаев, Säv

  • Khmer surname1.5K records spelled Sav2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Šäv

  • French surname1.1K records spelled Sav3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, India, Spain, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Săv

  • Spanish surname686 records spelled Sav2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Mexico, India

  • Arabic surname591 records spelled Sav5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Israel, Iran, United States

    Languages: Arabic, Hebrew

    Also written סב, Seb, Sv

37 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●

Sav 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 Russian, de Javieri, mot dérivé de Etchaberri, Maison Neuve, nom d'une localité de la Navarre. Fête : 20 novembre (3 décembre). Xavier est son équivalent français. Fête : 3 décembre.

    as a nameRussian Names

  • In Danish, a saw (cutting tool with a toothed blade)

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

  • ISO 639-3 language code for Saafi-Saafi.

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

  • In Swedish, sap (juice in plants)

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

  • In Serbo-Croatian, all, complete, whole

    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●

05010015019201940196019802000146 · 1980

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Sav in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1918–2015
Yearrecords
19182
19201
19222
19231
19241
19251
19271
19282
19292
19307
19318
19325
19333
19341
19358
19364
19378
19386
19395
19409
194110
194213
19438
19448
194518
194614
194713
194812
194916
195022
195111
195218
195319
195418
195532
195612
195728
195827
195925
196030
196123
196237
196342
196438
196571
196630
196752
196861
196970
197087
197171
197281
197377
1974112
1975114
197689
1977114
1978116
1979137
1980146
1981137
1982144
1983111
1984131
1985105
198686
1987119
198899
198993
199086
199188
199247
199381
199466
199544
199633
199725
19987
20083
20106
201110
20125
201320
201419
201511

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 85 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18801900192019401960Nizamettin Ali Sav, b. 1896Atila Sav, b. 1931Vasile Sav, b. 1949Tayfun Sav, b. 1959

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 16 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Sav
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—195K#111
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—675#1,439
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020151#120,768
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1980146—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1982144—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1981137—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1979137—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1984131—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1987119—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1978116—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1977114—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1975114—

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 · 192 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sav?
We estimate roughly 41 thousand people bear Sav (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Sav have the most bearers?
Sav is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled shiv.
Where is Sav most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sav is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 345 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is Sav compared with other names?
In India, Sav is the 40th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
What does the name Sav mean?
Recorded meaning: de sabellos, du pays de Saba, où d'origine hébraïque : de sa'el, demandé (à Dieu).
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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, “Sav” — the 40th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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