Sawin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: relationship name from the Middle English personal name Sawin, Sewin (Old English Sǣwine)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈsɔin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sawin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 302K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 165K
- CACanada≈1 in 257K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 240 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 165K (inferred from the name graph)
1,103 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
relationship name from the Middle English personal name Sawin, Sewin (Old English Sǣwine). Further information: This name is rare in Britain but is more common in the USA.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sawin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,103 | 1 in 302K | 1.1K | Sawin | 240 |
| IN India | 787 | 1 in 1.7M | 787 | Sawin | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 414K | 22 | Sawin | 30 |
| CA Canada | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 257K | — | Sawin | 30 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | listed | — | 1 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 295K | — | Sawin | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 165K | — | Sawin | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 272K | — | Sawin | 1 |
1,103 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)
Sawin is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In jiv, a preparation of tobacco juice used by a Shuar uwishín. It is taken orally or inhaled through the nose.
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)
- Viktor Savinb. 1888RUnot in their usual nameKomi poet, dramatist (1888–1943)
- Anatoly Savinb. 1920RUnot in their usual nameRussian scientist (1920-2016)
- Francisco Savínb. 1929MXnot in their usual nameMusic conductor
- Jean-Jacques Savinb. 1947FRnot in their usual nameFrench adventurer
- Egon Savinb. 1955BAnot in their usual nameBosnian film director
- Vitaliy Savinb. 1966KZnot in their usual nameKazakhstani sprinter
- Ovidiu Savinb. 1977ROnot in their usual nameRomanian mathematician
- Denis Savinb. 1981RUnot in their usual nameRussian ballet dancer
- Yevgeny Savinb. 1984RUnot in their usual nameRussian footballer
- Aleksandr Savinb. 1984RUnot in their usual nameRussian footballer (born 1984)
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 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,135 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 973 | #24,162 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 964 | #26,628 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 801 | #139 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 787 | #6,553 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 22 | #85,116 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #193,690 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Sawin come from?
- relationship name from the Middle English personal name Sawin, Sewin (Old English Sǣwine). Further information: This name is rare in Britain but is more common in the USA. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Sawin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsɔin/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Sawin mean?
- Recorded meaning: relationship name from the Middle English personal name Sawin, Sewin (Old English Sǣwine).
- In which country does Sawin have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Sawin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sawin.
- How common is the name Sawin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,103 people named Sawin in 2010, about 1 in 302 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sawinThe 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, “Sawin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.