Şa
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Şa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Short form of sina.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 94K
- EGEgypt≈1 in 235K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,500 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sa in EG Egypt, DZ Algeria, MA Morocco and Sà in TN Tunisia.
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)
Short form of sina
Sources 5
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- Chinese Surnames Dictionary (Section 1)
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Şa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | #299 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Sa | 15 |
| US United States | — | 1,975 | 1 in 168K | 1.8K | — | 42 |
| TN Tunisia | #504 | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Sà | 11 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 235K | — | Sa | 41 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Sa | 23 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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)
Şa 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 Turkmen, king
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Şa mean, and where does it come from?
- Short form of sina Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Şa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.5 thousand people named Şa in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sa.
- How common is the name Şa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,975 people named Şa in 2020, about 1 in 168 thousand residents.
- How common is Şa compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Şa is the 299th most common given name of 27,215 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9FaThe 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, “Şa” — the 299th most common given name in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.