Sarasin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: voir Sarrazin
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sarasin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 46Kas ศิลาชัย(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 99K
- USUnited States1 in 849K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sarasin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- 1 in 99K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 named ศิลาชัย, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
7 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled ศิลาชัย in TH Thailand and ศรีลาชัย in ID Indonesia.
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)
voir Sarrazin
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sarasin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 46K | #639,286 | ศิลาชัย | 57 |
| US United States | 392 | 1 in 849K | 392 | Sarasin | 20 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | ศรีลาชัย | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 85 | 1 in 99K | 85 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 11 | 1 in 1.1M | 11 | — | 2 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Sarasin is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, var. dialetal setentrional de Saracino; também pode indicar habitante de Sarasin.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Saracino
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)
- Jean François Sarrazinb. 1614FRnot in their usual nameFrench author
- Jakob Sarasinb. 1742CHSwiss politician (1742-1802)
- Édouard Sarasinb. 1843CHSwiss physicist and politician (1843-1917)
- Paul Sarasinb. 1856CHSwiss naturalist (1856-1929)
- Fritz Sarasinb. 1859CHSwiss naturalist (1859-1942)
- Philipp Sarasinb. 1888CHSwiss physician and psychiatrist (1888-1968)
- Phot Sarasinb. 1905THPrime Minister of Thailand (1905-2000)
- Alfred E. Sarasinb. 1922CHSwiss politician (1922-2005)
- Ronald A. Sarasinb. 1934USAmerican politician
- Asa Sarasinb. 1936THThai diplomat
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 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 392 | #52,851 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 389 | #56,668 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 373 | #52,289 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 85 | #12,519 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 11 | #68,527 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
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 Sarasin mean, and where does it come from?
- voir Sarrazin Recorded by Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition.
- In which country does Sarasin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named ศิลาชัย in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sarasin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sarasin is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 99 thousand people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sarasin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 392 people named Sarasin in 2010, about 1 in 849 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sarasinThe 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, “Sarasin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.