Savu
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/savu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Savu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- RORomania≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 89K
- ITItaly≈1 in 109K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Savu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #118 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Savu | 78 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Savu | 19 |
| ES Spain | — | 559 | 1 in 89K | 559 | Savu | 33 |
| IN India | — | 186 | 1 in 7.1M | 186 | — | 5 |
| US United States | — | 151 | 1 in 2.2M | 165 | Savu | 78 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 50 | 1 in 168K | 50 | — | 6 |
| FI Finland | — | 44 | 1 in 127K | 44 | — | 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Savu is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In fj, waterfall, a spout for water, aqueduct, conduit
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In wyy, to flow down, fall like a waterfall; waterfall
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Esperanto, imperative of savi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nlg, cloudy, hazy
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In se, stream pool
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fj, waterfall
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)
- Mihai Savub. 1879RORomanian fencer
- Ilie Savub. 1920RORomanian footballer (1920-2010)
- Alin Savub. 1942RORomanian basketball player
- Radu-Dumitru Savub. 1951RORomanian politician
- Daniel Savub. 1960ROpolitician
- Marian Savub. 1972RORomanian footballer
- Alin Savub. 1977RORomanian footballer
- George Daniel Savub. 1983RORomanian footballer
- Lulu SavuRORomanian actress
- Ion SavuRORomanian politician from Bucov, Prahova County
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)
Attested in 27 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 559 | #7,308 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 559 | #7,297 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 380 | #8,822 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 186 | #18,661 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 165 | #113,026 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 151 | #115,639 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 103 | #147,095 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 50 | #18,641 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 44 | #25,651 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Savu?
- A machine transcription gives /savu/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- In which country does Savu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Savu in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled savu.
- How common is the name Savu?
- In Spain, the national register counted 559 people named Savu, about 1 in 89 thousand residents.
- How common is Savu compared with other names?
- In Romania, Savu is the 118th most common surname of 78,699 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/savuThe 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, “Savu” — the 118th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.