Sarna
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in Polish: Polish surname meaning ‘deer’, like French Cerf
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sarna is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 9.4K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 65K
- FIFinland1 in 114K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 88 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
4,066 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
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)
Polish surname meaning ‘deer’, like French Cerf.
Sources 1
- Tên Họ Người Việt Nam
How Sarna is read(measured from records)
Sarna is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Polish38%
Polish surname meaning ‘deer’, like French Cerf.
as a nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
roe deer (any member of the genus Capreolus)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English26%
The religion of Sarna Dhorom.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sarna 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 4,066 | 1 in 9.4K | 2.1K | — | 88 |
| US United States | 1,002 | 1 in 332K | 1.1K | — | 51 |
| IN India | 774 | 1 in 1.7M | 774 | — | 16 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 252K | 196 | — | 26 |
| AU Australia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 217K | 1 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 84 | 1 in 65K | 84 | — | 4 |
| FI Finland | 49 | 1 in 114K | 49 | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 175K | 7 | — | 1 |
4,066 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Sarna 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.
ornamental name, nickname from Polish sarna ‘roe deer’.
as a nameThe Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
In Portuguese, scabies; mange (an infestation of parasitic mites Sarcoptes scabiei)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dsb, roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) (female or of unspecified gender)
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)
- Nahum M. Sarnab. 1923USAmerican biblical scholar (1923-2005)
- S. Mohinderb. 1925INnot in their usual nameIndian composer
- Aviva Sarna Segalb. 1927ILIsraeli poet (1927–2021)
- Mirosława Sarnab. 1942PLPolish sportsperson and athletics competitor
- Jonathan Sarnab. 1955USAmerican historian
- Marek Sarnab. 1955PLPolish astronomer
- Navtej Sarnab. 1957INIndian diplomat
- Michael J. Sarnab. 1965USAmerican actor
- Paweł Sarnab. 1977PLPolish poet
- Anna Sarnab. 1977PLPolish actress
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 33 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.1K | #1,264 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2K | #1,356 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,761 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,838 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 986 | #23,903 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 774 | #6,635 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 196 | #21,562 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 84 | #17,667 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 49 | #23,260 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 20 | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Sarna mean, and where does it come from?
- Polish surname meaning ‘deer’, like French Cerf. Recorded by Tên Họ Người Việt Nam.
- In which country does Sarna have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 4.1 thousand people named Sarna, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sarna most common?
- Sarna is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sarna?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4,066 people named Sarna in 2026, about 1 in 9.4 thousand residents.
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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, “Sarna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.