Sauk
loc · Latin script
Meaning: A tribe or group of Native Americans of the Eastern Woodlands culture group
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sauk is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Papua New Guinea than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.7M(measured from records)
- PGPapua New Guinea≈1 in 49K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 54K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sauk itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Papua New Guinea (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)
≈150 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Papua New Guinea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Саук in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus and 1 more.
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)
A tribe or group of Native Americans of the Eastern Woodlands culture group.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sauk 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 49K | 1 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 123 | 1 in 2.7M | 131 | Sauk | 95 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Саук | 10 |
| RU Russia | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Саук | 60 |
| BY Belarus | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 152K | — | Саук | 9 |
| PL Poland | 58 | 1 in 660K | 30 | — | 9 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 935K | — | Саук | 23 |
| EE Estonia | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 18 | — | 2 |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022); the ee-stat-nimed 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sauk is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, county, WI; N. American people
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In dtp, to scoop
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In cdo, a bird net, to lead, to follow, to
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, the first day of the moon, the he
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, to perceive (giéng-gaek)
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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)
- Max Saukb. 1929DEGerman sculptor (1929–2023)
- Jacek Saukb. 1944PLPolish politician
- Elżbieta Więcławska-Saukb. 1947PLPolish politician
- Stefan Saukb. 1955SEactor
- Sander Saukb. 1995EEEstonian badminton player (born 1995)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 131 | #133,930 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 123 | #136,449 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 30 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 30 | #70,607 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 28 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 28 | #73,426 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 18 | #6,150 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 14 | #8,105 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022) | — | 1 | #35 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Sauk mean, and where does it come from?
- A tribe or group of Native Americans of the Eastern Woodlands culture group. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Sauk have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 150 people named Sauk in Papua New Guinea, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sauk?
- In the United States, the national register counted 123 people named Sauk in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 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/saukThe 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, “Sauk”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.