Sacher
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. from Zacharias; 2
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈzaχɐ/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Sacher is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 94K
- HRCroatia1 in 211K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 203 (measured from records)
- 1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)1. from Zacharias; 2. 'litigant'; 3. itinerant trader; 4. ahd. saher 'sedge'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sacher 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 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | listed | Sacher | 115 |
| US United States | 587 | 1 in 567K | 666 | Sacher | 203 |
| CH Switzerland | 344 | 1 in 24K | 344 | Sacher | 26 |
| AT Austria | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Sacher | 47 |
| PL Poland | 294 | 1 in 130K | 152 | Sacher | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | 114 | 1 in 94K | 114 | — | — |
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; the dfa-band-2 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)Sacher is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from: i. the Yid. male given name Skharye, from the Hebr. name Zecharya-, see Zachary. 2. the Yid. male given name
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In German, Zu Zacharias gehöriges Familiennamen-Formular mit dentaler Affrikaten-/Frikativ-Variation; 1499 Belege, 1303+65 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Patronymischer Familienname mit lateinischer Genitivendung -is/-ae; Variantenpaar im morphologischen Typ.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Patronym aus Rufname Zacharias/Sacharja; zeigt Anlaut-Varianz S/Z. 1499 Bearer.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Patronymische S/Z-Anlaut-Varianz; belegt als Sacher/Zacher.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
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)- Franz Sacherb. 1816ATAustrian chef (1816-1907)
- Édouard Sacherb. 1843SKAustrian hotel manager (1843–1892)
- Anna Sacherb. 1859ATAustrian hotel owner and manager (1859-1930)
- Harry Sacherb. 1881GBBritish journalist (1881–1971)
- Yakov Zakherb. 1893RUnot in their usual nameSoviet historian (1893-1963)
- Maja Sacherb. 1896CHSwiss art collector (1896-1989)
- Paul Sacherb. 1906CHSwiss conductor (1906–1999)
- Michael Sacherb. 1917GBBritish retail executive and philatelist
- Ewald Sacherb. 1949ATAustrian politician
- Michael Sacherb. 1964DEGerman politician
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)38 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 666 | #32,529 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 628 | #38,010 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 587 | #37,848 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 344 | #3,843 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 152 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 152 | #21,177 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 142 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 142 | #22,074 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 114 | #14,854 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 113 | #7,302 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 2 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- Where does the name Sacher come from?
- 1. from Zacharias; 2. 'litigant'; 3. itinerant trader; 4. ahd. saher 'sedge' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Sacher?
- In German /ˈzaχɐ/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Sacher mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. from Zacharias; 2.
- In which country does Sacher have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Sacher in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sacher.
- Where is Sacher most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sacher is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 24 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sacher?
- In the United States, the national register counted 587 people named Sacher in 2010, about 1 in 567 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sacherThe 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, “Sacher”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.