# Saxe (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/saxe/  
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 the Germanic languages.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | German |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,776 |
| US rank (2010) | 16,250 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 173,843 people |
| Change since 2000 | +7.2% (1,657 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /sæks/, 1 syllable |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Seemingly a combination of influences: Middle English Saxe (“the Saxons”) (from Old English Seaxe), Middle French Saxe (“Saxony”), and German Sachsen (“Saxony”) and Sachse (“a Saxon”) itself, rewritten with x (compare regional German Saxen). The form Saxẽ (i.e., Saxen) is found in some Early Modern sources. The surname is also partly from German Sachs, itself a variant of Sachse; a variant of Dutch Sas (literally “Saxon”), a cognate; and Middle English Saxe, a personal name from Old Norse Saxi, from sax (“one-edged sword”). All of these ultimately lead back to Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“dagger, knife”). Doublet of Sachs, Sax, Sas, and Sachse.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Saxe 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) | 95% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.2% |
| Two or more races | 1.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Saxe in the United States.

## People named Saxe

- John Godfrey Saxe, American poet (1816-1887)

## Similar surnames

Sax, Sage, Saez, Sasse, Sosa, Souza, Skaggs, Shook, Sousa, Suggs, Sisk, Sisco.

## 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.