Last Name SAVAGE

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Nickname: The savage (similar to Wild). The invariable forms are Salvagem Sauvage, and Savage.

Origin	English, Jewish, Irish, Falkland, Maori, Belgian, South african, Hungarian

Rank	640 (2000 US census)	582 (1990 US census)

Count	48,367 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

77.24%, or 37359 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
18.59%, or 8991 total occurrences, as black,
0.42%, or 203 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.67%, or 324 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.61%, or 779 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.46%, or 706 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Longest last names

The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...

Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...