The Saxe surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,776 people carried this name — #16,250 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 166,700 people counted. That is up 7% from 1,657 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 94 people named Saxe.
5 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 24 départements, most often Nord.
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.
In the Nordic population registers
55 people named Saxe is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
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).
Who carried it
People named Saxe,
with a public archive behind them.
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Maurice de Saxe 1696–1750 · writer -
Maurice de Saxe 1696–1750 · writer
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Maurice de Saxe 1696–1750 · writer
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Caroline Christine of Saxe-Eisenach 1699–1743 · aristocrat -
Christophorus Saxius 1714–1806 · historian -
John Saxe-Fernández d. 2026 · university teacher
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Saxe.
When the index is not enough
This page says where Saxe is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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