Sær
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sær is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse sær, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz.
- ISIceland1 in 117K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 268Kas Saer
- ESSpain1 in 556Kas Saer
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sær itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 117K (inferred from the name graph)
90 named Saer
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Saer in SE Sweden, DK Denmark.
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)
- Old Norsesær(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*saiwiz(measured from records)
From Old Norse sær, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz.
Sources 2
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sær 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.
90 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| IS Iceland | Mannanafnaskrá — official register of approved personal names | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Sær mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse sær, from Proto-Germanic *saiwiz. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- In which country does Sær have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 90 people named Saer, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sær most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sær is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 117 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sær?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 3 people named Sær in 2026, about 1 in 117 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sær?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A6rThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Sær”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.