Given name & surname

Saito

Saito is a surname from Japanese. It is used in English, French, and Tagalog.

Original Japanese斎藤

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Saito comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese 斎藤 (Saitō).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Saito’s family of names

In English usage, Saito as a surname was borrowed from the Japanese form 斎藤.

Walk Saito’s family in the name graph

SaitoSaitto斎藤

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Sibling ideas

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