The Sale surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,591 people carried this name — #9,097 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 82,000 people counted. That is up 2% from 3,511 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 831 people named Sale 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 Tucumán.
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 659 people named Sale.
26 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 59 départements, most often Maine-et-Loire.
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
28 people named Sale live in Switzerland.
They live in 3 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.
Among the farmers of England and Wales, 1880s
Sale was found among the farmers of 3 counties.
It was most frequent in Hertfordshire: 25 in every 10,000 farmers there — about 1 in 400. Guppy counted the farmers listed in each county’s directory and recorded a name only where it reached about 7 in every 10,000; where it does not appear, it was rarer than that, not absent.
Where it concentrates, on the mapPer 10,000 farmers, by county
H. B. Guppy, «Homes of Family Names in Great Britain» (London, 1890), alphabetical list of English and Welsh names — public domain · farmers in Kelly’s Post Office Directories of the 1880s, per 10,000 farmers in each county.
In print
Sale in American newspapers,
1910–1917.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 12,314,338 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Sale,
with a public archive behind them.
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Walter Sale d. 1763
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Elizabeth Ann Sale d. 1994
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Caroline Catherine Sale d. 1890
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Valerio Sale 1530–1608 · writer
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Edmund Sale 1605–1648 · priest
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Niccolò Sale 1650– · sculptor
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Sale.
- Salazar 152,703 · U.S. census
- Salber 245 · U.S. census
- Salce 902 · U.S. census
- Salcedo 18,387 · U.S. census
- Saldana 34,434 · U.S. census
- Saldo 163 · U.S. census
- Saleh 9,656 · U.S. census
- Salem 8,404 · U.S. census
- Salemi 1,365 · U.S. census
- Salemme 465 · U.S. census
- Salen 299 · U.S. census
- Salerno 9,440 · U.S. census
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