The Sabater surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 923 people carried this name — #26,451 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 322,600 people counted. That is up 16% from 796 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Sabater surname
Borrowed from Spanish Sabater, from Catalan, from sabater (“shoemaker”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Sabater» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 391 people named Sabater live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 278 people named Sabater.
94 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 30 départements, most often Hauts-de-Seine.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
36 people named Sabater live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Sabater.
- Saba 3,712 · U.S. census
- Sabah 374 · U.S. census
- Saban 859 · U.S. census
- Sabas 448 · U.S. census
- Sabat 621 · U.S. census
- Sabate 193 · U.S. census
- Sabatier 286 · U.S. census
- Sabatini 2,274 · U.S. census
- Sabatino 3,382 · U.S. census
- Sabato 711 · U.S. census
- Sabbagh 1,483 · U.S. census
- Sabbah 276 · U.S. census
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