Sarson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) Son of Sara; (ii) son of Saher; (iii) from a medieval nickname for a swarthy person or Crusader
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɑɹsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sarson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 138K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
- HRCroatia1 in 26K
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.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 155 (measured from records)
- 1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈480 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) Son of Sara; (ii) son of Saher; (iii) from a medieval nickname for a swarthy person or Crusader.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sarson 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 138K | 821 | Sarson | 102 |
| US United States | 279 | 1 in 1.2M | 287 | Sarson | 155 |
| HR Croatia | 162 | 1 in 26K | 162 | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 326K | — | Sarson | 48 |
| AU Australia | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 319K | — | Sarson | 38 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Sarson | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Sarson | 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 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Sarson 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 English, ‘son of Sara’ or ‘son of Saer’; first attested Adam Sareson 1285 LLB A
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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)
- Michael Vivian Sarsonb. 1953GB(born 1953)
- Adam SarsonUSbasketball player
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)
Attested in 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 821 | #7,747 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 287 | #72,902 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 279 | #70,208 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 271 | #67,936 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Sarson mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) Son of Sara; (ii) son of Saher; (iii) from a medieval nickname for a swarthy person or Crusader. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Sarson?
- A machine transcription gives /sɑɹsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sarson have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 475 people named Sarson in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sarson.
- Where is Sarson most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sarson is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 26 thousand people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sarson?
- In the United States, the national register counted 279 people named Sarson in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million 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/sarsonThe 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, “Sarson”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.