# Sainsbury (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/sainsbury/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 800 |
| US rank (2010) | 29,502 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 385,932 people |
| Change since 2000 | +7.1% (747 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Habitational surname from the village of Saintbury, in Gloucestershire, recorded in the 12ᵗʰ century as Seynesbury, from the Old English personal name Sǣwine + byriġ (“fortified place”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Sainsbury in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 93% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 3.8% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.5% |
| Two or more races | 0.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Sainsbury in Australia and New Zealand.

## People named Sainsbury

- Trent Sainsbury, Australian association football player
- Amber Sainsbury, British actress

## Similar surnames

Sansbury, Sensabaugh, Sengupta, Sanghvi.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.