Sarrasin

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Sarrasin is one spelling over 3 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.

• French51%

  Saracen

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  Plante vulgairement appelée blé noir ou blé rouge. Sans doute originaire de Perse, on la cultive soit pour engraisser le bétail soit pour confectionner un pain noir, assez lourd. Elle doit son nom aux Sarrasins, mot qui désignait, au Moyen Âge, tous les musulmans, aussi bien les Arabes que les Turcs qui passaient tous pour avoir la peau noire.

  as a name·2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)

• English37%

  A portcullis.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Spanish6.4%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Sarrasin in Spanish.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Sarrasin is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Switzerland

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Sarrasín

• Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Argentina, Spain, United States, Switzerland

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Sarrasín

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Sarrasín

24 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

• Philibert Sarasinb. 1500FRnot in their usual name(1500-1573)
• Alexandre Sarrasinb. 1895CH(1895-1976)
• Paul Sarrasinb. 1963CACanadian dub actor and radio host
• Nicolas Sarrasinb. 1973CACanadian writer
• Grégory Sarrasinb. 1979CHSwiss wrestler
• Maeva Sarrasinb. 1987CHSwiss footballer

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Where does the name Sarrasin come from?

A portcullis. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

How do you pronounce Sarrasin?

In Spanish /saɾrasin/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

What does the name Sarrasin mean?

In French, Saracen

In which country does Sarrasin have the most bearers?

Mondonomo estimates about 561 people named Sarrasin in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sarrasin.

Where is Sarrasin most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sarrasin is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 19 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Sarrasin?

In Switzerland, the national register counted 433 people named Sarrasin in 2024, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.