Sarre
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in French: Saarland (a state of Germany)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sarre is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 58K(inferred from the name graph)
- SNSenegal≈1 in 5.1K
- FIFinland1 in 13K
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.
- Senegal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sarré in SN Senegal.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Saarland (a state of Germany)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sarre is read(measured from records)
Sarre 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.
- French22%
Saarland (a state of Germany)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English10%
French name o/Saar
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Sarre 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.
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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)
Sarre is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, redução popular e coloquial de Baldassarre.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In enm, alternative form of sore (“sore”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mak, kind of tussock grass: Andropogon nardus; a medicinal oil is extracted from the roots, and the stalks are used as a condiment
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In rob, a grass with deep roots and small bluish-green leaves, used as a condiment: Andropogon nardus Linn.
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- François Sarreb. 1854FRFrench composer and musician
- Friedrich Sarreb. 1865DEGerman archaeologist (1865-1945)
- Friedrich-Carl Sarreb. 1901DEGerman lawyer
- Marie-Louise Sarreb. 1903DEGerman sculptor
- Hans Sarreb. 1906DEGerman internist
- Claude-Alain Sarreb. 1928FRFrench writer
- Georges Sarreb. 1935FRFrench politician (1935–2019)
- Philippe Sarreb. 1951FRFrench politician
- Rick Sarreb. 1955AUAustralian legal scholar
- Stephen SarreAUresearcher (conservation genetics)
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 414 | #4,080 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 182 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 178 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 177 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 175 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 159 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 159 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 155 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 147 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 141 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 124 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 120 | #13,005 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- 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 Sarre mean, and where does it come from?
- Saarland (a state of Germany) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Sarre have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Sarre in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sarré.
- How common is the name Sarre?
- In Finland, the national register counted 414 people named Sarre, about 1 in 13 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/sarreThe 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, “Sarre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.