Sainte-Marie
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sainte-Marie is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 171K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 771K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 171K (inferred from the name graph)
≈400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Saintemarie in US United States.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sainte-Marie 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 171K | 83 | Sainte-Marie | 125 |
| CA Canada | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 771K | — | Sainte-Marie | 29 |
| US United States | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 32M | listed | SainteMarie | 27 |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 4 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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)
- Étienne Sainte-Marieb. 1777FRnot in their usual namephysician from France
- Louis Sainte-Marieb. 1835CAnot in their usual nameCanadian politician (1835–1913)
- Élisabeth Sainte-Marie Perrinb. 1879FRnot in their usual nameFrench novelist and literary critic (1879-1926)
- Judith Sainte-Marieb. 1886CAnot in their usual nameCanadian artist (1886–1970)
- Rémi Sainte-Marieb. 1938CAnot in their usual nameCanadian archbishop (1938–2022)
- Buffy Sainte-Marieb. 1941USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician
- Andde Sainte-Marieb. 1960FRnot in their usual nameFrench politician
- Carlos Ste-Marieb. 1961CAnot in their usual nameCanadian painter (born 1961)
- Micheline Sainte-MarieCAnot in their usual nameQuebec poet
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 3 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 102 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 89 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 86 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 84 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 83 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 82 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 82 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 76 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 65 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 61 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 56 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Sainte-Marie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 396 people named Sainte-Marie in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Sainte-Marie.
- How common is the name Sainte-Marie?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4 people named Sainte-Marie in 2026, about 1 in 9.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Sainte-Marie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sainte-marieThe 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, “Sainte-Marie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.