The Sava surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 550 people carried this name — #37,938 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 500,000 people counted.
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In Belgium’s population register
At least 151 people named Sava 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 Brussels-Capital.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
84 people named Sava live in Switzerland.
They live in 10 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 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 68 people named Sava.
Most of them — 38 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 17 départements, most often Bouches-du-Rhône.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Sava.
- Sauter 4,531 · U.S. census
- Sautter 1,514 · U.S. census
- Sauvage 346 · U.S. census
- Sauvain 123 · U.S. census
- Sauve 2,288 · U.S. census
- Sauveur 161 · U.S. census
- Savage 48,367 · U.S. census
- Saval 103 · U.S. census
- Savalli 102 · U.S. census
- Savard 1,704 · U.S. census
- Savarese 2,163 · U.S. census
- Savarino 537 · U.S. census
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