Saint-James
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
Saint-James is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 930K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 9.5Mfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 21M
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 934K (inferred from the name graph)
≈73 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 Saintjames in US United States, GB United Kingdom, IT Italy.
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.
Where the surname Saint-James is found
(measured from records)Saint-James 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 | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 934K | 13 | Saint-James | 68 |
| US United States | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 9.5M | listed | Saintjames | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | 11 | Saintjames | 23 |
| CA Canada | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 21M | 1 | — | 3 |
| IT Italy | — | — | — | Saintjames | 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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)- Pascal Saint Jamesb. 1963FRnot in their usual nameFrench pornographic actor and director
- Catherine Saint-Jamesb. 1968FRnot in their usual nameFrench 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Saint-James?
- Mondonomo estimates about 73 people named Saint-James in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Saint-James. After it come United States, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Saint-James?
- Mondonomo estimates about 73 people in France have Saint-James as their first surname, about 1 in 934 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Saint-James?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saint-jamesThe 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, “Saint-James”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.