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The Savic surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 629 people carried this name — #35,721 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 476,200 people counted. That is up 29% from 487 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Savic surname

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Savić.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Savic» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

1,342 people named Savic live in Switzerland.

They live in 23 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Zurich 394
Aargau 169
St. Gallen 167
Vaud 109
Ticino 92
Bern 63
Basel-Landschaft 55
Basel-Stadt 36

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 France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 105 people named Savic.

Most of them — 93 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 7 départements, most often Paris.

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

Where they were born

Born outside France 93
Paris 5
Rhône 2
Indre-et-Loire 1
Loiret 1
Vosges 1
Seine-Saint-Denis 1
Val-de-Marne 1

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

In the Nordic population registers

504 people named Savic is counted in Sweden.

Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.

Counted, by country

Sweden (2022) 504

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).

In print

Savic in American newspapers,
1917–1921.

Newspaper page from Telegraf carrying the name Savic
Telegraf 1921-07-29
Newspaper page from Svět = World carrying the name Savic
Svět = World 1921-07-26
Newspaper page from Proletarec carrying the name Savic
Proletarec 1917-11-06

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 8,383,727 pages in all carry the name.

Who carried it

People named Savic,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Vladislav Savic 1956–2021 · journalist
  • Zoran Savic 1959– · association football player
  • Selena Savic 1980– · architect
  • Michaela Savić 1991– · model
  • Jazeek 1999– · rapper
  • Chiara Savic 2000– · association football player

Wikidata (CC0) · 9 lives in all are documented under this name.

When the index is not enough

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

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