Sai Family History

Chinese: Mandarin form of the surname 賽 meaning ‘giving thanks to God’ in ancient Chinese: adopted as a Han Chinese surname from different minority ethnic groups in ancient China. Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 蔡 possibly based on its pronunciation in the Hainanese dialect see Cai.

Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 佘 see She. Chinese: Cantonese form of the surname 西 see Xi. Chinese: possibly from Cantonese form of the Chinese name 世 (meaning ‘world’) a monosyllabic personal name or part of a disyllabic personal name of some early Chinese immigrants in the US.

Vietnamese (Sái): from the Chinese surname 蔡 see Cai 1 and 2 above.

Vietnamese (Sài): from the Chinese surname 柴 see Chai.

Possibly also Burmese (Shan): from a title of respect and a form of address for a man similar to English ‘mister’. — Note: This title is not used as a personal name in Burma but in the US it might have been in some cases registered (or counted in the census data) as a surname.