Serment
surname · Latin script
Meaning: oath, pledge
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɛʁmɑ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Serment is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 840K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 2.9M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 840K (inferred from the name graph)
10 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Şerment in TR Türkiye.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
oath, pledge
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Serment 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 4 | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | — | — |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | Serment | 38 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Serment | 13 |
| TR Türkiye | — | — | — | Şerment | 2 |
10 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Louise-Anastasia Sermentb. 1642FRFrench natural philosopher and poet
- Elisa Sermentb. 1865CHSwiss feminist
- Henri SermentFRFrench gynecologist obstetrician
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 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #110,851 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Serment mean, and where does it come from?
- oath, pledge Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Serment?
- A machine transcription gives /sɛʁmɑ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Serment have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 10 people named Serment, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Serment most common?
- Serment is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 840 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Serment?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 10 people named Serment in 2024, about 1 in 840 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Serment?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sermentThe 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, “Serment”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.