Savary
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: From the Norman male personal name Savaric, of Germanic origin
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Savary is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 6.4K(measured from records)
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 27K
- BEBelgium1 in 98K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
1,321 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the Norman male personal name Savaric, of Germanic origin.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
How Savary is read(measured from records)
Savary 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.
- French76%
Nom germanique Sabaric, de sab d’origine indéterminée et rīc « puissant ».
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
- English18%
From the Norman male personal name Savaric, of Germanic origin.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
from Old French Savari, Old Germanic Sabaricus/Savaricus; first attested Joldewinus filius Sauarici 1158 P (Sx)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 in the world(measured from records)
Savary 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 1,321 | 1 in 6.4K | 1.3K | Savary | 13 |
| US United States | 678 | 1 in 491K | 678 | Savary | 25 |
| BE Belgium | 120 | 1 in 98K | 120 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 40 | 1 in 5.3M | 40 | Savary | 23 |
| ES Spain | 21 | 1 in 2.4M | 21 | Savary | 8 |
| DK Denmark | 6 | 1 in 978K | 6 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 2 | 1 in 27K | 2 | — | — |
1,321 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
- Jacques Savaryb. 1622FRFrench writer
- Claude-Étienne Savaryb. 1750FRFrench egyptologist
- Anne Jean Marie René Savaryb. 1774FRFrench general (1774-1833)
- Felix Savaryb. 1797FRFrench astronomer (1797-1841)
- Alain Savaryb. 1918FRFrench politician (1918-1988)
- Olga Savaryb. 1933BRBrazilian poet, translator and storyteller
- Jérôme Savaryb. 1942FRArgentine-born French theater director and actor
- René Savaryb. 1949CHcyclist
- Gilles Savaryb. 1954FRFrench politician (born 1954)
- Géraldine Savaryb. 1968CHSwiss politician and journalist
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 28 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1.3K | #821 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 678 | #33,596 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 654 | #36,772 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 641 | #33,563 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 120 | #13,392 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 40 | #122,472 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 21 | #82,201 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 21 | #80,648 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 6 | #55,027 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 2 | #180 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Savary mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Norman male personal name Savaric, of Germanic origin. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Savary have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Savary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled savary.
- Where is Savary most common?
- Savary is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Savary?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,321 people named Savary in 2024, about 1 in 6.4 thousand 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/savaryThe 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, “Savary”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.