Samstag
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Saturday
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/səmztæɡ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Samstag is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- ATAustria
- DEGermany
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Saturday
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Samstag is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Aus dem Tagesnamen; Übername mit Bezug zum Samstag bzw. zur Samstagsgeburt/-feier.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Übername zum Samstag; Bezug auf den Wochentag. Beleger: 152.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, from the weekday name 'Saturday'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Abraham Samstagb. 1864CZHolocaust victim (born 1864)
- Julius Samstagb. 1882CZHolocaust victim (born 1882)
- Josef Samstagb. 1884CZHolocaust victim (born 1884)
- Vítězslav Samstagb. 1894CZHolocaust victim (born 1894)
- Arnošt Samstagb. 1897CZHolocaust victim (born 1897)
- Robert Samstagb. 1898CZHolocaust victim (born 1898)
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)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 123 | #127,948 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 120 | #142,049 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 115 | #144,141 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 3 | #152,356 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #165,325 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Samstag mean, and where does it come from?
- Saturday Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- How do you pronounce Samstag?
- A machine transcription gives /səmztæɡ/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Samstag?
- In the etymology graph, SameDI and Szombat are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Samstag have the most bearers?
- Samstag is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Samstag?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/samstagThe 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, “Samstag”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.