Savo

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Savo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Italian Savo.

rarermore common
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 3.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia1 in 6.1K
  • SISlovenia1 in 6.5K

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.

Serbia (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,200 people, est.

Sources
9 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Serbia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Borrowed from Italian Savo.

Sources 2

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Savo 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.

Where Savo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RS Serbia≈2,200 est.≈1 in 3.2K—Savo3
HR Croatia6931 in 6.1K693——
SI Slovenia3251 in 6.5K325—1
US United States1571 in 2.1M568Savo9
AT Austria≈160 est.≈1 in 57K14——
XK Kosovo≈25 est.≈1 in 78K118——

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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SURS — resident population given names; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Savo is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria

    Languages: Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian

    Also written Саво, Šavo, Sаvо

  • English given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, India, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Savonia, Sãvõ, Sâvö, Savò

  • Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia, India

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Savonia

  • Italian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Serbia

    Also written Savò, Savonia

  • German given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, United States

    Also written Savonia

  • Hungarian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary

    Also written Sávo, Sàvó

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Savo 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 Lithuanian, reflexive possessive pronoun; belonging to the subject of the sentence (regardless of gender or number)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Finnish, Savo Finnish, Savonian (dialect of Finnish spoken in Savo)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In dtp, husband, wife; better half

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Esperanto, salvation, salvage

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In io, knowledge

    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)

18501900195020002050Savo Čelebić, b. 1879Savo Sovre, b. 1928Savo Klimovski, b. 1947Savo Ekmecic, b. 1948Savo Štrbac, b. 1949Savo Minić, b. 1974Savo Raković, b. 1985Savo Jovanović, b. 1999Savo Drezgić, b. 2006

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 44 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Savo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020568#41,313
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010563#39,117
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000551#37,881
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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 Savo mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Italian Savo. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
Is Savo a male or female name?
Savo is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Savo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Savo in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled savo.
How common is the name Savo?
In Croatia, the national register counted 693 people named Savo in 2021, about 1 in 6.1 thousand residents.

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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, “Savo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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