Sawant
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sɔənt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sawant is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Marathi सावंत (sāvanta). This surname is mostly found in Maharashtra.
- INIndia1 in 110K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 550K
- AOAngola≈1 in 46K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 219 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
12,066 people
Highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Marathi सावंत (sāvanta). This surname is mostly found in Maharashtra.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sawant 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #349 | 12,066 | 1 in 110K | 12K | Sawant | 219 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 646K | — | Sawant | 5 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Sawant | 2 |
| US United States | — | 605 | 1 in 550K | 1.2K | Sawant | 213 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Sawant | 10 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Sawant | 21 |
| NO Norway | — | 80 | 1 in 68K | 80 | — | 10 |
12,066 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Sawant 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 Polish, savant (person with significant mental disabilities who is very gifted in one area of activity, such as playing the piano or mental arithmetic)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A surname from Marathi.
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)
- P. K. Sawantb. 1905INIndian politician
- Govind Sawantb. 1935INIndian field hockey player (1935–2001)
- Hanumant Shankar Sawantb. 1939INradio astronomer
- Kshama Sawantb. 1973INAmerican politician and economist
- Rakhi Sawantb. 1978INIndian actress
- Tejaswini Sawantb. 1980INIndian sport shooter
- Abhijeet Sawantb. 1981INIndian singer
- Pooja Sawantb. 1990INIndian actress
- Prajakta Sawantb. 1992INbadminton player
- Sandeep SawantINIndian filmographer
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 12K | #878 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 12K | #9 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,469 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 605 | #36,900 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 198 | #87,348 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 94 | #3,853 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 80 | #18,419 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 21 | #783 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 15 | #75,045 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 8 | #17,030 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Sawant mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Marathi सावंत (sāvanta). This surname is mostly found in Maharashtra. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Sawant?
- A machine transcription gives /sɔənt/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Sawant have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Sawant, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sawant.
- How common is the name Sawant?
- In India, the national register counted 12,066 people named Sawant, about 1 in 110 thousand residents.
- How common is Sawant compared with other names?
- In India, Sawant is the 349th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sawantThe 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, “Sawant” — the 349th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.