Sachsen
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Saxony (a state of modern Germany, located in the east, far from historical Saxon lands)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sachsen is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 5.3M(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.3M (inferred from the name graph)
≈15 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Saxony (a state of modern Germany, located in the east, far from historical Saxon lands)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sachsen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 5.3M | — | Sachsen | 42 |
| PL Poland | — | — | — | Sachsen | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | — | — | Sachsen | 5 |
| AT Austria | — | — | — | Sachsen | 2 |
| EE Estonia | — | — | listed | — | 1 |
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: the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sachsen is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, ethnonym 'Saxons'; nd. Sasse
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Croatian, v. Saksonija
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gothab. 1719DEnot in their usual nameGerman princess (1719–1772); Princess of Wales as wife of Frederick, Prince of Wales; mother of George III
- Ernest Ib. 1784DEnot in their usual nameduke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1784-1844)
- Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gothab. 1818DEnot in their usual nameGerman prince (1818–1893)
- Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gothab. 1819DEnot in their usual nameConsort of Queen Victoria from 1840 to 1861 (1819–1861)
- Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gothab. 1844GBnot in their usual nameDuke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1893 to 1900 (1844–1900)
- Princess Stéphanie of Belgiumb. 1864BEnot in their usual nameArchduchess of Austria (1864–1945)
- Princess Maria Josepha of Saxonyb. 1867DEnot in their usual nameArchduchess of Austria (1867-1944)
- Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gothab. 1876GBnot in their usual nameGrand Duchess of Russia (1876–1936)
- Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gothab. 1884GBnot in their usual namelast Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from 1900 to 1918, British prince and royal duke, Nazi politician (1884–1954)
- Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gothab. 1908SEnot in their usual nameSaxe-Coburgen and Gothan and Swedish Royal
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)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
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 Sachsen mean, and where does it come from?
- Saxony (a state of modern Germany, located in the east, far from historical Saxon lands) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Sachsen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 people named Sachsen in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sachsen.
- How common is the name Sachsen?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 people in Germany have Sachsen as their first given name, about 1 in 5.3 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sachsenThe 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, “Sachsen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.