Sauter
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Obsolete form of psalter
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Sauter is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 5.8K(measured from records)
- BBBarbados≈1 in 7.5Kfew records
- AGAntigua & Barbuda≈1 in 20Kfew records
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 States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 321 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.8K (inferred from the name graph)
5,163 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)Occupational surname from lat. sūtor 'shoe stitcher/mender'; plate shows diphthongized vs shortened vowel in Sauter/Sutter. Bearer count: 6030.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sauter is read
(measured from records)Sauter is one spelling over 2 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.
- English59%
Obsolete form of psalter.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German25%
Occupational surname from lat. sūtor 'shoe stitcher/mender'; plate shows diphthongized vs shortened vowel in Sauter/Sutter. Bearer count: 6030.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Berufsname zu mhd. sūter/suter ‘Schuster, Schuhmacher’; zeigt die monophthongische Vokalvariante au in der südwestdeutschen Verteilung. 6030 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Berufsname: Schuster/Schuhmacher; südwestdt. Typ, aus mhd. sūter ‘Schuhmacher’.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Berufsname: Schuster/Schuhmacher; Belege im Typ: 11 Varianten, 8523 Tokens (Saut(t)er 4783+1199, Sauther 48, Sutter 1500, Suter 203, Sutterer 128, Suther 16, Sütterlin 517, Sütterle 61, Sitterle 44, Sitterli 24).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Vokalvariation Sauter/Sautter; Belege: Elsass 94/25, Lothringen 14/0, Schweiz 722/67, Österreich 65/21.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
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 Sauter is found
(measured from records)Sauter 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 5,163 | 1 in 64K | 5.2K | Sauter | 321 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 1,450 | 1 in 5.8K | 1.4K | Sauter | 39 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Sauter | 71 |
| FR France | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 121K | 59 | — | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 123K | 61 | Sauter | 39 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Sauter | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 91 | 1 in 56K | 91 | — | — |
| BB Barbados | #117 | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Sauter | 2 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #906 | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Sauter | 1 |
5,163 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)- Anton Sauterb. 1800ATAustrian botanist and physician (1800-1881)
- Fritz Sauterb. 1906ATAustrian-German physicist (1906-1983)
- Alfred Sauterb. 1950DEGerman politician
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)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Sauter come from?
- Occupational surname from lat. sūtor 'shoe stitcher/mender'; plate shows diphthongized vs shortened vowel in Sauter/Sutter. Bearer count: 6030. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
- What are other forms of the name Sauter?
- In the etymology graph, Saut is a form of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Sauter mean?
- In English, Obsolete form of psalter.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sauter?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.2 thousand people named Sauter, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sauter. After it come Switzerland, Canada, France and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Sauter most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sauter is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 5.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sauter?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,163 people named Sauter in 2010, about 1 in 64 thousand residents.
- How common is Sauter compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Sauter is the 117th most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sauterThe 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, “Sauter” — the 117th most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.