Sadler
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sadler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: maker of saddles, from an agent deriv.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 7.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 9.9K
- CACanada≈1 in 15K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 444 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)
21,504 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
maker of saddles, from an agent deriv. of ME, MLG sadel (OE sadol, OSax. zadel). Vars.: Eng.: Saddler; Sadlier (chiefly common in Ireland). Low Ger.: Sedler; Sadelmacher. Cogns.: Ger.: Sattler, Sattler; Sattel. Flem.: De Sadelaer; Saelman, Saelemaeker. Du.: Zadelaar. Jewish (Ashkenazic): Satler, Satelman, Zatelman; Zutler (S Ashkenazic, from a S Yid. pronunciation of Yid. zotler saddlemaker).
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sadler 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 | — | 21,504 | 1 in 15K | 22K | Sadler | 444 |
| GB United Kingdom | #646 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | 14K | Sadler | 242 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Sadler | 2 |
| AU Australia | #946 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | Sadler | 160 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Sadler | 155 |
| NZ New Zealand | #824 | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Sadler | 82 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Sadler | 25 |
| JM Jamaica | #368 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Sadler | 8 |
21,504 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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)
Sadler 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.
In English, A surname originating as an occupation for a saddler.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, saddle-maker
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In German, berufsbezogener Familienname: engl./nd. Form zu Sattler, Sattelmacher
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In enm, alternative form of sadelere
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, indefinite plural of sadel
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Ralph Sadlerb. 1507GBEnglish statesman (1507-1587)
- James Sadlerb. 1753GBBritish balloonist (1753–1828)
- Reinhold Sadlerb. 1848USAmerican politician (1848-1906)
- Barry Sadlerb. 1940USAmerican author and musician (1940–1989)
- David Sadlerb. 1946GBEnglish footballer (born 1946)
- William Sadlerb. 1950USAmerican actor (born 1950)
- John Sadlerb. 1953GBBritish historian
- Benjamin Sadlerb. 1971DEGerman actor
- Nicholas Sadlerb. 1975USAmerican actor
- Anthony Sadlerb. 1992USAmerican actor, television personality and writer
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 31 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 22K | #1,678 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 21K | #1,571 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 21K | #1,706 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 14K | #541 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- Where does the name Sadler come from?
- maker of saddles, from an agent deriv. of ME, MLG sadel (OE sadol, OSax. zadel). Vars.: Eng.: Saddler; Sadlier (chiefly common in Ireland). Low Ger.: Sedler; Sadelmacher. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- What does the name Sadler mean?
- Recorded meaning: maker of saddles, from an agent deriv.
- In which country does Sadler have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Sadler, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sadler.
- How common is the name Sadler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 21,504 people named Sadler in 2010, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Sadler compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Sadler is the 368th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Sadler” — the 368th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.