The Savin surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 996 people carried this name — #24,961 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 294,100 people counted. That is up 2% from 980 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 1,281 people named Savin.
29 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 69 départements, most often Saône-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
48 people named Savin live in Switzerland.
They live in 8 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Fribourg.
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 Argentina’s national register
At least 46 people named Savin 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 Santiago del Estero.
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 the Nordic population registers
132 people named Savin are counted in Finland and Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
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) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Savin,
with a public archive behind them.
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Nicolas Savin 1792–1894 · teacher -
Levi Heywood Sawin 1816–1902 · politician -
Thomas Savin 1826–1889 · engineer -
Samuel Dexter Sawin 1835–1890 · politician -
Nikolaĭ Gerasimovich Savin 1855–1937 · soldier
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Nikolaĭ Gerasimovich Savin 1855–1937 · soldier
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Savin.
When the index is not enough
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