Sakr
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sakr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. Recorded meaning: sacre, sacrement ; sacré, inviolable.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 12K
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 157 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
sacre, sacrement ; sacré, inviolable
Sources 1
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sakr 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #155 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Sakr | 129 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Sakr | 48 |
| SY Syria | #692 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Sakr | 16 |
| LB Lebanon | #359 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Sakr | 55 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Sakr | 70 |
| US United States | — | 282 | 1 in 1.2M | 438 | Sakr | 157 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Sakr | 22 |
| QA Qatar | #924 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Sakr | 24 |
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 2020. 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)
Sakr is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Breton, sacre, sacrement ; sacré, inviolable
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- Karol Sakrb. 1969LBLebanese singer
- Laila Shereen Sakrb. 1971EGEgyptian social scientist
- Ghada Sakrb. 1973EGEgyptian Politician
- Okab Sakrb. 1975LBLebanese journalist
- Omar Sakrb. 1989AUAustralian poet, novelist and essayist (born 1989)
- Mariam Sakrb. 1997EGEgyptian swimmer
- Chahed Sakrb. 2001TNTunisian artistic gymnast
- Antoine SakrLBLebanese footballer
- Sherif SakrAUresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-2503-523X
- Mohammad A. Sakrresearcher
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 27 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 438 | #51,363 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 282 | #69,579 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 162 | #102,691 |
| 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
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Sakr mean, and where does it come from?
- sacre, sacrement ; sacré, inviolable Recorded by Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- In which country does Sakr have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Sakr in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sakr.
- How common is the name Sakr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 282 people named Sakr in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Sakr compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Sakr is the 155th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sakrThe 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, “Sakr” — the 155th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.