Sauër
surname · Latin script
Sauër is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: German surname, from Middle High German sur (“sour”) (modern German sauer).
- DKDenmark1 in 16K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 22K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 25K
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
- 172 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
15,430 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sauer in US United States, NL Netherlands, CH Switzerland and 1 more.
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)German surname, from Middle High German sur (“sour”) (modern German sauer).
Cited for this meaning 6
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
- Wiktionary
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sauër 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 | — | 15,430 | 1 in 22K | 15K | Sauer | 142 |
| BR Brazil | — | 4,154 | 1 in 51K | 4.2K | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,415 | 1 in 32K | 1.4K | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 531 | 1 in 33K | 531 | Sauer | 11 |
| PL Poland | — | 429 | 1 in 89K | 229 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 377 | 1 in 16K | 377 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 336 | 1 in 25K | 336 | Sauer | 13 |
| BF Burkina Faso | #880 | — | — | — | Sauer | 1 |
15,430 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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Sauër mean, and where does it come from?
- German surname, from Middle High German sur (“sour”) (modern German sauer). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Sauër have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Sauër, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sauer.
- Where is Sauër most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sauër is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sauër?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,430 people named Sauër in 2010, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Sauër compared with other names?
- In Burkina Faso, Sauër is the 880th most common surname of 4,677 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sau%C3%ABrThe 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, “Sauër” — the 880th most common surname in Burkina Faso. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.