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The SAX surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,704 15731 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 537 9122 0.001 11
Change since 1880 +1167 -6609 0 -5
Other Countries
Australia 44 28171 0 3
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for SAX by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 248 10256 0.001 7
Minnesota 133 5308 0.003 27
Florida 130 13316 0.001 8
New York 130 14249 0.001 7
Illinois 127 10211 0.001 10
Top States for SAX by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 22 5321 0.003 34
Minnesota 133 5308 0.003 27
Montana 15 9910 0.002 17
Vermont 10 8286 0.002 16
Wyoming 6 12840 0.001 12

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called SAX live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called SAX represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called SAX in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a SAX by picking someone at random in North Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of SAX

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the SAX surname.

Ethnic distribution of SAX in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 31 1.82
White (Hispanic) 26 1.53
Asian/Pacific 23 1.35
White (Caucasian) 1,602 94.01
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the SAX surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

SAX is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of SAX in historical publications

SAX. A-Sax. seax or sex, a dagger or short sword.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to SAX

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SAX.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for SAX

The following words are slight variants of SAX that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.