Säger
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Occupational surname: sawyer, a wood-cutter/saw operator (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Säger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 10,541 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 5.9K(measured from records)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 24Kfew records
- DEGermany≈1 in 25K
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 Säger 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 386 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)
10,541 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sager in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 5 more and Saeger in ML Mali, AG Antigua & Barbuda.
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
(measured from records)Occupational surname: sawyer, a wood-cutter/saw operator.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Säger is found
(measured from records)Säger 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 | — | 10,541 | 1 in 32K | 11K | Sager | 386 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Sager | 116 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Sager | 33 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 1 | Sager | 106 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 260 | Sager | 85 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 1,436 | 1 in 5.9K | 1.4K | Sager | 53 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Sager | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | #618 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Sager | 1 |
| ML Mali | #388 | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Saeger | 1 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Saeger | 1 |
10,541 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Säger 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 Swedish, present indicative of säga
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)- Albert Sägerb. 1866DEGerman painter (1866–1924)
- Wolfgang Sägerb. 1947DEGerman badminton player
- Lars Sägercinematographer
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Säger mean, and where does it come from?
- Occupational surname: sawyer, a wood-cutter/saw operator. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Säger?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Säger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sager. After it come Germany, Philippines, Canada and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Säger most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Säger is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 5.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Säger?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,541 people named Säger in 2010, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
- How common is Säger compared with other names?
- In Mali, Säger is the 388th most common surname of 7,873 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A4gerThe 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, “Säger” — ranked 3194th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.