How common is the surname Sauve?

2,321 people in the United States had the surname Sauve in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 133,023 Americans. It ranked 13,171st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Sauve?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Sauve identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Sauve getting more or less common?

More common. 2,288 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,321 in 2010, up 1.4%.

The surname Sauve

A French surname, carried by 2,321 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S100

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sauve is more common than 91.9% of them.

Origin

French origin

French Sauvé

One of 791 French surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,321 people named Sauve in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 133,023 Americans. That is up 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,288.

#13,171

rank among US surnames

2,321

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

+1.4%

change since 2000 (was #12,443)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,165	Pettyjohn	2,323	132,908
#13,166	Ziemer	2,322	132,965
#13,171	Tedeschi	2,321	133,023
#13,177	Kennison	2,320	133,080

Who is named Sauve

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

93% of people named Sauve identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.1%
Two or more races 1.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Sauve

Sauve has the Soundex code S100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S100.

Other French surnames

All 791 French surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Sauve come from?: French Sauvé
How common is the surname Sauve?: 2,321 people in the United States had the surname Sauve in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 133,023 Americans. It ranked 13,171st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sauve?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Sauve identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Sauve getting more or less common?: More common. 2,288 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,321 in 2010, up 1.4%.