Sayo: Name Meaning, Origin & Popularity

At a Glance: Name: Sayo – Origin: Japanese – Gender: Girl


Sayo is a Japanese girl's name. It appears in our list of 175+ Japanese Baby Girl Names With Beautiful Kanji Meanings.

Meaning & Origin of Sayo

Origin: Japanese.

A common claim: Little night Actually: This name is often glossed as 'little night,' from the classical spelling 小夜. But the documented kanji for it (沙世, 沙代, 紗世) don't include a 'night' character, so that meaning doesn't apply to those spellings.

Source: Wikipedia.

Popularity of Sayo

Sayo doesn’t appear in U.S. Social Security birth records, which include every name given to at least five babies in a year — so it’s rare in the U.S.

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