Sayson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Seholiek, SeolIiek v
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/seɪzən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sayson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 4.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 849K
- THThailand≈1 in 96Kas สายสอน
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sayson itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 160 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈26,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled สายสอน in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Seholiek, SeolIiek v. Ysgolhaig Seourfield v. Introd. Place-names
Sources 1
- Welsh Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sayson 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #198 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Sayson | 96 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Sayson | 6 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 96K | #696,899 | สายสอน | 43 |
| US United States | — | 392 | 1 in 849K | 480 | Sayson | 160 |
| RE Réunion | #228 | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Sayson | 1 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Sayson | 7 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Sayson | 9 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Sayson is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Cebuano, a surname from Hokkien, common among Filipinos of Chinese ancestry
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 480 | #47,612 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 392 | #52,851 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 265 | #69,201 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Sayson?
- A machine transcription gives /seɪzən/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Sayson mean?
- Recorded meaning: Seholiek, SeolIiek v.
- In which country does Sayson have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Sayson in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sayson.
- How common is the name Sayson?
- In the United States, the national register counted 392 people named Sayson in 2010, about 1 in 849 thousand residents.
- How common is Sayson compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Sayson is the 198th most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saysonThe 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, “Sayson” — the 198th most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.