Sauvage
surname · Latin script
Meaning: wild, untouched, unspoiled, pristine
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sovaʒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sauvage is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 827K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 7.9K
- NONorway1 in 249K
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.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.9K (inferred from the name graph)
1,487 people, 2008
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
wild, untouched, unspoiled, pristine
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sauvage 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 1,487 | 1 in 7.9K | 1.5K | Sauvage | 27 |
| US United States | 402 | 1 in 827K | 402 | Sauvage | 156 |
| AR Argentina | 64 | 1 in 711K | 64 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 52 | 1 in 962K | 52 | Sauvage | 14 |
| CH Switzerland | 26 | 1 in 323K | 26 | Sauvage | 4 |
| NO Norway | 22 | 1 in 249K | 22 | — | 3 |
1,487 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)
Sauvage is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Surnom désignant un individu fruste, peu sociable.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In fro, wild; untamed; barbarian
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nrm, wild; untamed
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)
- Thomas Sauvageb. 1794FRFrench playwright
- François Clément Sauvageb. 1814FRFrench geologist (1814-1872)
- Henri Émile Sauvageb. 1842FRFrench paleontologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist (1842-1917)
- Henri Sauvageb. 1873FRFrench architect (1873–1932)
- Cécile Sauvageb. 1883FRFrench poet (1883-1927)
- Catherine Sauvageb. 1929FRFrench actress and singer (1929–1998)
- Paul Sauvageb. 1939FRFrench footballer (1939-2019)
- Jean-Pierre Sauvageb. 1944FRFrench nanotechnologist
- Louise Sauvageb. 1973AUAustralian paralympic athlete
- Aloïse Sauvageb. 1992FRFrench singer
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 25 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1.5K | #768 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 1.4K | #841 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 402 | #51,723 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 382 | #57,536 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 346 | #55,481 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 64 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 52 | #43,578 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 52 | #43,157 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 26 | #30,302 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 22 | #40,840 |
| 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
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Sauvage mean, and where does it come from?
- wild, untouched, unspoiled, pristine Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sauvage?
- A machine transcription gives /sovaʒ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Sauvage have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Sauvage, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sauvage.
- Where is Sauvage most common?
- Sauvage is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sauvage?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1,487 people named Sauvage in 2008, about 1 in 7.9 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sauvage?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sauvageThe 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, “Sauvage”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.