Saz
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Turkish: rush, bulrush; cattail; sedge; reed
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Saz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 36K(measured from records)
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 33K
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 46K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
rush, bulrush; cattail; sedge; reed
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Saz is read(measured from records)
Saz is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish40%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Saz in Spanish.
- Turkish37%
rush, bulrush; cattail; sedge; reed
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English9.2%
The baglama.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Saz counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Saz | 7 |
| ES Spain | 1,376 | 1 in 36K | 1.4K | Saz | 110 |
| PH Philippines | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Saz | 11 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Saz | 12 |
| US United States | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | listed | Saz | 66 |
| SV El Salvador | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Saz | 13 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Saz is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Kurdish, Instrument, order, harmony, an art-loving person who lives life in accord
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In gmh, first/third-person singular preterite indicative of sitzen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Luxembourgish, sentence
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Azerbaijani, baglama
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Leylâ Sazb. 1850TRTurkish composer and writer (1850–1936)
- Ismael Sazb. 1952ESSpanish historian
- José Vicente Saz Pérezb. 1959ESSpanish academic; rector of the University of Alcalá
- Alfonso Gracia-Sazb. 1976ESCanadian mathematics professor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.4K | #3,352 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.4K | #3,351 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Saz mean, and where does it come from?
- rush, bulrush; cattail; sedge; reed Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Saz?
- A machine transcription gives /sas/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Saz?
- In the etymology graph, Sazlık is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Saz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Saz in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saz.
- How common is the name Saz?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,376 people named Saz, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Saz?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sazThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Saz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.