# Sasse (surname)

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

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | German |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,772 |
| US rank (2010) | 16,273 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 174,236 people |
| Change since 2000 | +5.4% (1,682 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /sæs/, 1 syllable |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a Dutch and North/Low German surname, from Middle Low German sasse (“Saxon”) (modern Sasse), from Old Saxon Sahso, from Proto-West Germanic *Sahsō. * As a French surname, from the ancient Germanic name Sahso, shortened pet form of compound names containing the element sahs (“Saxon”), itself from the root of the above.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Sasse 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) | 92% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.8% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.4% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.8% |
| Two or more races | 1.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Sasse in the United States, Belgium and Brazil.

## People named Sasse

- Ben Sasse, American politician and college president (born 1972)
- Marie Sasse, Belgian operatic soprano (1834–1907)
- Yan Sasse, Brazilian association football player

## Similar surnames

Sass, Sasso, Sease, Sais, Sage, Saxe, Saks, Swasey, Sosa, Souza, Skaggs, Shook.

## 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.