Savin
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 28 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/sabin/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Savin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- MDMoldova≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- RORomania≈1 in 4.6Kfew records
- FIFinland1 in 27K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 237 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Moldova, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Savin is read
(measured from records)Savin is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English37%
The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
US copier co.
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- French21%
Variante de Sabin, du latin Sabinus, nom des Sabins.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Nom romain lié à Sabin; saint Savin.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
- Ukrainian11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Savin in Ukrainian.
- Spanish8.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Savin in Spanish.
- Russian6.6%
de Sabinus, des Sabins, sabin, du nom d'un ancien peuple d'Italie. Fêtes : 30 janvier (12 février), 13 (26) mars, 16 (29) mars, 12 (25) mai, 15 (28) octobre. Sabin ou Savin est son équivalent français. Fêtes : 30 décembre, 11 juillet, 9 octobre.
as a nameRussian Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Savin is found
(measured from records)Savin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Savin | 36 |
| FR France | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 252 | — | 4 |
| US United States | 996 | 1 in 334K | 1.1K | Savin | 237 |
| IT Italy | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Savin | 17 |
| RU Russia | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 163K | listed | Savin | 50 |
| MD Moldova | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 21 | — | 5 |
| FI Finland | 208 | 1 in 27K | 208 | — | 7 |
| HR Croatia | 89 | 1 in 48K | 89 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); e-services.md — living 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Savin 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 Romanian, lat. Sabinus, etnic. 1. Savin (Sd XXI) ; -escu ; marital; Savieneasa (Sd XVI)'; Savinesti s. 2. Saghin (IS 270) ; -escu (Puc) ; -a f. (Sd VII 65) etc. ; -a, Mara, buc. act. 3. Cu fon. lat.-magh. pentru s : ,F agh in es c u. 4. Scurtat Sain, Rad-Pinciu (Ard). 5. Sub infl. latinista, Sabin, Andrei, cap. tllmaciu la 1800 (Stef) si Sabian, Alexe (Tee I). Modern Sabin, -a.
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
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)- Éric Savinb. 1964FRFrench actor
- Vitaliy Savinb. 1966KZKazakhstani sprinter
- Yevgeny Savinb. 1984RURussian footballer
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)55 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 28 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Savin mean, and where does it come from?
- The evergreen shrub Juniperus sabina, endemic to Europe, which yields a medicinal oil. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Savin?
- In Spanish /sabin/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Savin?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.2 thousand people named Savin in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled savin. After it come France, United States, Italy and Russia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Savin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 996 people named Savin in 2010, about 1 in 334 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/savinThe 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, “Savin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.