Sawe
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sawe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 3.4M
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 12M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sawe itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4M (inferred from the name graph)
≈130 named Saewe, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Saewe in DE Germany.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sawe 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 602K | — | Saewe | 36 |
| PH Philippines | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Sawe | 5 |
| NO Norway | 4 | 1 in 1.4M | 4 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 3 | 1 in 3.4M | 3 | — | 3 |
| US United States | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 180M | listed | Sawe | 57 |
| AU Australia | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 24M | — | Sawe | 18 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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)
Sawe 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 English, Obsolete spelling of saw, simple past of see.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, inflection of sāwan:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In yka, snake (generic)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In enm, saying, saw
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bug, to arrive
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In btz, python
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Julius Saweb. 1971KEKenyan athletics competitor
- Sabastian Kimaru Saweb. 1995KEKenyan long-distance runner
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 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 4 | #71,344 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3 | #64,548 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Sawe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 133 people named Saewe in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sawe most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sawe is densest in Norway — about 1 in 1.4 million people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sawe?
- In Norway, the national register counted 4 people named Sawe, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Sawe?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/saweThe 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, “Sawe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.