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

The Sergent surname

In the 2000 U.S. Census, 2,860 people carried this name — #10,323 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 94,300 people counted.

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In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 4,198 people named Sergent.

45 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 87 départements, most often Pas-de-Calais.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 45
Pas-de-Calais 933
Finistère 424
Paris 397
Nord 194
Sarthe 180
Loiret 176
Yvelines 163
Eure-et-Loir 114

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 44 people named Sergent 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 Hainaut.

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

Where they live today

Hainaut 30
Namur 14

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

In Switzerland’s population statistics

31 people named Sergent live in Switzerland.

They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.

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

Where they live today

Vaud 16
Valais 5
Geneva 4
Fribourg 3
Neuchâtel 3

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.

When the index is not enough

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

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