Sarto
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Italian: tailor (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries
/zaɾtu/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Sarto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 24Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 60Kfew records
- BRBrazil1 in 93K
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
- 80 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Sarto
- Portuguese:/zaɾtu/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/saɾto/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Italian:/ˈsar.to/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)tailor
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sarto is read
(measured from records)Sarto is one spelling over 4 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.
- English35%
Andrea, Florentine artist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Portuguese27%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sarto in Portuguese.
- Spanish19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sarto in Spanish.
- Italian6.9%
tailor
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
do lat. sartor, alfaiate; variante toscana de Sartore.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Variante di Sarti
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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 Sarto is found
(measured from records)Sarto 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: 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; 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Sarto 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 Latin, dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of sartus
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)- Andrea del Sartob. 1487FRItalian painter (1486-1530)
- Pius Xb. 1835ITnot in their usual namePope of the Catholic Church from 1903 to 1914, saint
- Clelia Sartob. 1973DEGerman actress
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sarto mean, and where does it come from?
- tailor Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sarto?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /zaɾtu/; in Spanish /saɾto/; in Italian /ˈsar.to/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sarto?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Sarto in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sarto. After it come Brazil, Philippines, Indonesia and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sarto?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,272 people named Sarto, about 1 in 93 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sarto?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sartoThe 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, “Sarto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.