Säre
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Säre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of sear (“dry”).
- HRCroatia1 in 7.9K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 183K
- FIFinland1 in 186K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.9K (inferred from the name graph)
581 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)- Middle Englishsere(inferred from the name graph)via sear
- Old Englishsēar“dry“dry, sere, sear, withered, barren”(inferred from the name graph)via sear
- Proto-West Germanic*sauʀī(inferred from the name graph)via sear
- Proto-Germanic*sauzaz“dry”(inferred from the name graph)via sear
- Proto-Indo-European*sh₂ews-“dry“dry, parched”(inferred from the name graph)via sear
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Variant of sear (“dry”).
Cited for this meaning 4
- The African book of names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Säre 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 581 | 1 in 573K | 613 | — | 5 |
| HR Croatia | 538 | 1 in 7.9K | 538 | — | — |
| IN India | 449 | 1 in 3M | 449 | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 233 | 1 in 909K | 233 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 106 | 1 in 429K | 106 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 45 | Säre | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | 46 | 1 in 183K | 46 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 55 | — | 2 |
581 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the ee-stat-nimed register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Karl Säreb. 1903EEEstonian politician (1903-1945)
- Rudolf Säreb. 1909EEEstonian veterinary scientist (1909-1982)
- Meeri Säreb. 1929EEEstonian scenographer (1929-2009)
- Meelis Säreb. 1960EEEstonian military personnel (1960-2014)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 45 | #2,199 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 39 | #2,622 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Säre mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of sear (“dry”). Recorded by The African book of names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Säre have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 581 people named Säre, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Säre most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Säre is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 7.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Säre?
- In the United States, the national register counted 581 people named Säre in 2010, about 1 in 573 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A4reThe 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, “Säre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.