Saft
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Initialism of Swiss Army Fitness Test
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sæft/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Saft is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 298K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 406K
- BRBrazil1 in 488K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- 1 in 298K (inferred from the name graph)
434 people
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From mhd. sanfte with nasal loss, but also possible from mhd. saf(t) 'Saft'. Demonstrates labial fricative variation: s/f/t forms vs. sanft-analogy. 457 tokens.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Saft is read(measured from records)
Saft is one spelling over 4 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.
- English53%
Initialism of Swiss Army Fitness Test.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German19%
From mhd. sanfte with nasal loss, but also possible from mhd. saf(t) 'Saft'. Demonstrates labial fricative variation: s/f/t forms vs. sanft-analogy. 457 tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
juice
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Zu germ. *samftja- 'sanft, weich, angenehm'; nd. mit ft > ht auch sâcht neben sâft. f/ch-Variation; 457 Bearer.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
- Portuguese10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Saft in Portuguese.
- Spanish8.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Saft in Spanish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Saft 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 434 | 1 in 488K | 434 | Saft | 46 |
| US United States | 313 | 1 in 1.1M | 313 | Saft | 15 |
| AR Argentina | 112 | 1 in 406K | 112 | Saft | 19 |
| NL Netherlands | 58 | 1 in 298K | 58 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 55 | 1 in 696K | 31 | — | — |
434 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Saft is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, alternative form of schaft (“shaft”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, juice (within an organism – usually a plant, sometimes an animal)
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)
- Charlotte Marcusyb. 1852PLnot in their usual nameHolocaust victim (born 1852)
- Helene Brillb. 1870not in their usual nameHolocaust victim, born 1870-03-01
- Carsten Saftb. 1965DEresearcher
- Jamie Saftb. 1971USAmerican keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound engineer and producer
- Allison Saftb. 1993USAmerican novelist (born 1993)
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 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 434 | #19,323 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 313 | #63,698 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 298 | #70,715 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 290 | #64,186 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 112 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 58 | #28,176 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 31 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 31 | #69,115 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 24 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 24 | #80,960 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Saft come from?
- From mhd. sanfte with nasal loss, but also possible from mhd. saf(t) 'Saft'. Demonstrates labial fricative variation: s/f/t forms vs. sanft-analogy. 457 tokens. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus.
- How do you pronounce Saft?
- A machine transcription gives /sæft/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Saft mean?
- In English, Initialism of Swiss Army Fitness Test.
- In which country does Saft have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 434 people named Saft, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled saft.
- Where is Saft most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Saft is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 298 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Saft?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 434 people named Saft, about 1 in 488 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Saft?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saftThe 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, “Saft”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.