Sachs

Sachs is the 5,004th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,799 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 44,000.

By the numbers

People: 6,799
Rank: 5,004th
How common: 1 in 44,000
Per 100,000: 2.3

Where the name comes from

Origin German, from an ethnonym

From the German surname, from Sachse (“Saxon”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Sachs described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.09%

Notable people called Sachs

Nelly Sachs (1891–1970)Jewish German poet and playwright
Jeffrey Sachs (born 1954)American economist
Hans Sachs (1494–1576)German meistersinger ("mastersinger"), poet, playwright and shoemaker
Julius von Sachs (1832–1897)German botanist
Curt Sachs (1881–1959)German musicologist
Gunter Sachs (1932–2011)German-Swiss industrial heir, socialite, art collector
Andrew Sachs (1930–2016)British actor
Robin Sachs (1951–2013)British actor

People named Sachs with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Sachs

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.