Sauve
surname · Latin script
Meaning: row escape, or from a given name with a religious signifi¬ cance referring to Christian salvation, from OF sauve saved (past part, of sauver to save, L salvare)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sauve is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 9.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 44K
- USUnited States1 in 143K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 251 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
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)
row escape, or from a given name with a religious signifi¬ cance referring to Christian salvation, from OF sauve saved (past part, of sauver to save, L salvare). Cogns.: Prov.: Sauvat, Salvat. Cat.: Salvat. Sp., Port.: Salvado.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sauve 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Sauve | 1 |
| CA Canada | #643 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Sauve | 157 |
| US United States | — | 2,321 | 1 in 143K | 2.3K | Sauve | 251 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 266 | Sauve | 195 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 99K | listed | Sauve | 13 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Sauve | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Sauve | 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the xinhua-italian-manual 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)
Sauve is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, alternative form of saven
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ltg, handful
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)
- Philippe Sauveb. 1974FRFrench writer and cineast
- Drew SauveCAResearcher
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.3K | #13,171 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,443 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.2K | #13,093 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 329 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 313 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 275 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 266 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 241 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 239 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 225 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 220 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 167 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Sauve come from?
- row escape, or from a given name with a religious signifi¬ cance referring to Christian salvation, from OF sauve saved (past part, of sauver to save, L salvare). Cogns.: Prov.: Sauvat, Salvat. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- What does the name Sauve mean?
- Recorded meaning: row escape, or from a given name with a religious signifi¬ cance referring to Christian salvation, from OF sauve saved (past part, of sauver to save, L salvare).
- In which country does Sauve have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Sauve in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sauve.
- How common is the name Sauve?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,321 people named Sauve in 2010, about 1 in 143 thousand residents.
- How common is Sauve compared with other names?
- In Canada, Sauve is the 643rd most common surname of 699,524 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sauveThe 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, “Sauve” — the 643rd most common surname in Canada. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.