Sauveur surname: U.S. census count, rank and records | FamilyCrests

The Sauveur surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 264 people carried this name — #73,464 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,111,100 people counted. That is up 64% from 161 in 2000.

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In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 279 people named Sauveur.

9 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 38 départements, most often Pas-de-Calais.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 9
Pas-de-Calais 59
Seine-Maritime 37
Finistère 36
Paris 22
Somme 17
Gard 11
Meurthe-et-Moselle 10
Oise 8

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Belgium’s population register

At least 131 people named Sauveur live in Belgium.

Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Liège.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Liège 123
Luxembourg Province 8

Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

Who carried it

People named Sauveur,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Toussaint-Dieudonné Sauveur
    Toussaint-Dieudonné Sauveur 1766–1838 · physician
  • Albert Sauveur
    Albert Sauveur 1863–1939 · physicist
  • Joseph Sauveur 1653–1716 · physicist
  • Marguerite-Louise Sauveur 1727–1810 · actor
  • (Dieudonné) Jean Joseph Sauveur 1797–1862 · physician
  • J.-T.-Hyacinthe Sauveur 1801–1888 · physician

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 7 lives in all are documented under this name.

When the index is not enough

This page says where Sauveur is.
A volume says what happened to it.

Every page in the index is free and stays free. The Heritage Volume is the long form: the full paper trail, the arms, the crossing — bound, and yours.

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