# Sergeant (surname)

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

A surname originating as an occupation for a servant.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,385 |
| US rank (2010) | 19,498 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 222,921 people |
| Change since 2000 | +6.0% (1,306 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From sergeant.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Sergeant 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) | 77% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 17% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.6% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.5% |
| Two or more races | 1.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Sergeant in Australia and Belgium.

## People named Sergeant

- Peta Sergeant, Australian actress
- Ingeborg, Belgian singer

## Similar surnames

Sargent, Sergent, Sargeant, Scroggins, Sargsyan, Schrecengost, Sorkin, Saraceno, Schwarzenberg, Schwarzenegger.

## 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.