Sarro
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: tartar
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈsa.ro/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Sarro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 37Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 40K
- ESSpain1 in 84K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 231 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)laugh (something that provokes mirth or scorn)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Sarro is read
(measured from records)Sarro 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.
- English60%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sarro in English.
- Spanish19%
tartar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese6.2%
laugh (something that provokes mirth or scorn)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 the surname Sarro is found
(measured from records)Sarro 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 37K | listed | Sarro | 29 |
| US United States | — | 1,470 | 1 in 226K | 1.5K | Sarro | 231 |
| BR Brazil | — | 734 | 1 in 288K | 734 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 594 | 1 in 84K | 594 | Sarro | 22 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 162K | 50 | Sarro | 30 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 85 | 1 in 40K | 85 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Sarro | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Sarro | 1 |
| HM Heard & McDonald Islands | #237 | — | — | — | Sarro | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Sarro 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 Baldassarro.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Baldassarri
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Galician, tartar (red compound deposited during wine making)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In frp, Sarre (a town in Aosta Valley, Italy)
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)- Domenico Sarrob. 1679ITItalian composer (1679-1744)
- Lina Sarrob. 1957ITItalian university teacher
- Carlo Sarrob. 1959ITItalian politician
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Sarro come from?
- laugh (something that provokes mirth or scorn) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sarro?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ˈsa.ro/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /ˈsa.ho/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Sarro mean?
- In Spanish, tartar
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sarro?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Sarro in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sarro. After it come United States, Brazil, Spain and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sarro?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,470 people named Sarro in 2010, about 1 in 226 thousand residents.
- How common is Sarro compared with other names?
- In Heard & McDonald Islands, Sarro is the 237th most common surname of 1,376 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sarro?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sarroThe 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, “Sarro” — the 237th most common surname in Heard & McDonald Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.