The Saur surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 806 people carried this name — #29,334 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 370,400 people counted. That is up 1% from 798 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 188 people named Saur.
14 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 25 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
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 Argentina’s national register
At least 136 people named Saur 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 Chaco.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
59 people named Saur live in Switzerland.
They live in 9 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Bern.
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.
In the Nordic population registers
374 people named Saur are counted in Norway and Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Saur,
with a public archive behind them.
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Stanislaus Saur 1469–1535
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Abraham Saur 1545–1593 · jurist
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F. I. Saur 1700–1800 · draftsperson
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Mathilde Frieda Lina Saur 1873–1959 · entrepreneur
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Saur.
- Saulle 164 · U.S. census
- Saulnier 1,471 · U.S. census
- Sault 293 · U.S. census
- Saumier 172 · U.S. census
- Saunders 69,943 · U.S. census
- Saunier 775 · U.S. census
- Saura 183 · U.S. census
- Saure 126 · U.S. census
- Sauri 301 · U.S. census
- Sauser 676 · U.S. census
- Sauter 5,163 · U.S. census
- Sautter 1,826 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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