Sassen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: archaic form of Saksen: Saxony
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/səsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sassen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 72K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M
- NLNetherlands1 in 20K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- 1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
archaic form of Saksen: Saxony
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sassen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Sassen | 85 |
| NL Netherlands | 847 | 1 in 20K | 847 | Sassen | 50 |
| US United States | 209 | 1 in 1.6M | 226 | Sassen | 132 |
| BR Brazil | 143 | 1 in 1.5M | 143 | — | — |
| ZA South Africa | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 589K | — | Sassen | 9 |
| BE Belgium | 57 | 1 in 206K | 57 | Sassen | 11 |
| AU Australia | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 452K | — | Sassen | 35 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 513K | — | Sassen | 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ferdinand Sassenb. 1894NLDutch philosopher (1894-1971)
- Maan Sassenb. 1911NLDutch politician (1911-1995)
- Willem Sassenb. 1918NLDutch Nazi collaborator, Waffen-SS officer and journalist
- Bruno Sassenb. 1918DEGerman soldier
- Ingeborg Sassen-Haaseb. 1919DEGerman actress
- Saskia Sassenb. 1947USDutch-American sociologist
- Ursula Sassenb. 1947DEGerman politician
- Simone Sassenb. 1952NLDutch photographer
- Erna Sassenb. 1961NLDutch actor, radio host and writer (born 1961)
- Andreas Sassenb. 1968DEGerman footballer (1968-2004)
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 15 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 847 | #2,098 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 226 | #78,549 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 214 | #92,231 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 209 | #88,685 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 143 | #48,212 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 57 | #23,825 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Sassen mean, and where does it come from?
- archaic form of Saksen: Saxony Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sassen?
- A machine transcription gives /səsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sassen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Sassen in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sassen.
- Where is Sassen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sassen is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 20 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sassen?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 847 people named Sassen in 2007, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sassen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sassenThe 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, “Sassen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.