Sarsfield

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈsɑɹsfiɫd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sarsfield is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Apparently a habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 405K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 505K
  • DKDenmark1 in 1.5M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

821 people, 2010

Sources
30 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 405K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Apparently a habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place.

Sources 1

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sarsfield 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.

Where Sarsfield is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States8211 in 405K821Sarsfield19
AR Argentina901 in 505K90Sarsfield30
DK Denmark41 in 1.5M4——
FR France———Sarsfield15
GB United Kingdom——668Sarsfield8
PT Portugal———Sarsfield11
IE Ireland———Sarsfield3

821 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sarsfield is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Sársfield

38 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Sarsfield is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Irish, Sáirséil. Branches of this family settled in Cos. Cork and Limerick in the twelfth century as well as in Co. Dublin; the famous Patrick Sarsfield was of the Dublin branch. Bibl. IF Map Dublin

    as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland

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)

16001700180019002000Patrick Sarsfield, b. 1655Pedro Sarsfield, b. 1781Dominick Sarsfield, b. 1790Dalmacio Vélez Sarsfield, b. 1800Vern Sarsfield, b. 1905Mairuth Sarsfield, b. 1925Emily Sarsfield, b. 1983

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)

FormalDear Sarsfield,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Sarsfield
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010821#28,940
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020809#30,813
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000757#29,421
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)2002668#9,066
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—90—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—4#66,062
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Sarsfield mean, and where does it come from?
Apparently a habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Sarsfield?
A machine transcription gives /ˈsɑɹsfiɫd/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Sarsfield have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 821 people named Sarsfield, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sarsfield.
Where is Sarsfield most common?
Sarsfield is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 405 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Sarsfield?
In the United States, the national register counted 821 people named Sarsfield in 2010, about 1 in 405 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, “Sarsfield”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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