Find out how popular the last name Sauveur is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Sauveur.

Sauveur, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Sauveur surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Sauveur in America

Sauveur is the 73464th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Sauveur surname appeared 264 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Sauveur.

We can also compare 2010 data for Sauveur to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Sauveur

The surname "SAUVEUR" is of French origin, derived from the Old French word "sauveor" or "saveor," meaning "savior" or "redeemer." It likely originated in northern France during the Middle Ages.

One of the earliest recorded instances of the name can be found in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as "Salvator," a Latin form of the same word. This suggests that the name was in use in Normandy before the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.

During the 12th and 13th centuries, the name began to appear in various forms, such as "Sauveur," "Sauver," and "Salvator," in medieval records and manuscripts from regions like Normandy, Brittany, and Île-de-France.

The name may have been initially given as a descriptive name or a nickname to someone who was seen as a savior or protector, or it could have been adopted as a surname by individuals with a particular devotion to Christ as the Savior.

One of the earliest known individuals with the surname Sauveur was Jean Sauveur, a French mathematician and physicist born in 1653 in La Fleche, France. He made important contributions to the study of acoustics and the theory of vibrating strings.

Another notable figure was Jacques Sauveur, a French composer and organist born in 1519 in Valenciennes, who served as a court musician to King Henry II of France.

In the 18th century, Gilles-François Sauveur de La Tour, a French painter and portraitist, was born in 1713 in Montpellier. He is known for his pastels and portraits of members of the French nobility.

The 19th century saw the birth of Paul-Émile Sauveur, a French linguist and pioneer in the study of phonetics, born in 1858 in Valenciennes. His work contributed significantly to the development of the International Phonetic Alphabet.

In more recent times, one of the most famous individuals with the surname Sauveur was the French actor and comedian Michel Serrault, born in 1928 in Brunoy, whose birth name was Michel Serrault-Sauveur.

Throughout its history, the surname Sauveur has been associated with various places in northern France, such as the communes of Sauveur-le-Vicomte in Normandy and Sauveur-Lendelin in Manche.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Sauveur

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Sauveur.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Sauveur was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Sauveur has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Sauveur was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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