Salvage Surname

200,601st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 2,080 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
England
Highest density in:
Liberia

Salvage Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a nickname. 'the savage' (compare Wild). It is curious that Wild and Savage should be so popular as sobriquets, but fierceness was fascinating. The invariable forms are Salvage, Sauvage, and Savage.

Geoffrey le Sauvage, Leicestershire, Henry III-Edward I: Testa de Nevill, sive Liber Feodorum, temp.

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Salvage Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England6331:88,0229,558
United States5821:622,78250,324
France2511:264,63240,776
Australia2401:112,48212,520
South Africa991:547,25043,124
Nigeria771:2,300,55577,632
Liberia671:65,7995,672
Wales421:73,6796,340
Canada371:995,82774,831
Scotland181:297,43413,849
Sweden71:1,406,680102,017
India51:153,413,076951,030
Brazil41:53,518,583632,670
Ireland21:2,354,47019,715
Spain21:23,376,018128,922
Peru21:15,892,06251,966
Singapore11:5,507,70347,049
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
New Zealand11:4,528,32355,372
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Mauritius11:1,293,41716,552
Ghana11:27,020,69223,742
Kenya11:46,179,900103,372
Iraq11:35,021,65431,813
Greece11:11,079,790145,225
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland41:1,107,46726,093
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England2881:84,6378,940
Wales201:78,4213,652
Scotland101:374,32210,959
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States551:913,06755,053

Salvage (104) may also be a first name.

Salvage Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a nickname. 'the savage' (compare Wild). It is curious that Wild and Savage should be so popular as sobriquets, but fierceness was fascinating. The invariable forms are Salvage, Sauvage, and Savage.

Geoffrey le Sauvage, Leicestershire, Henry III-Edward I: Testa de Nevill, sive Liber Feodorum, temp. Henry III-Edward I.

Walter Salvage, Oxfordshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Robert le Savage, Suffolk, ibid.

Beatrix Sawage, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

Robertus Sawfage, 1379: ibid.

Adelmya le Sauvage. Placitorum in domo capitulari Westmonasteriensi.

John le Savage. Rolls of Parliament.

William le Salvage. Calendarium Inquisitionum Post Mortem.

1734. Married — Andrew Savage and Mary Gill: St. George, Hanover Square.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

From Old French salvage, French sauvage, 'wild.' "La Sauvage was a sobriquet of early times, both in Normandy and England, which implied, perhaps, a roughness of manners" (Lower). John Sauuage, a witness in 1222 (LSC., 62). James Seavage was married in Edinburgh, 1629 (Edinb. Marr.), and John Savadge appears in the toun of Sanquhar, 1641 (Dumfries).

The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)

Etymologically more correct forms than the much commoner Savage, q.v.

As shepheardes curre, that in darke eveninges shade Hath traded forth some salvage beastes trade.—Spenser, Faerie Queene, II. vi. 39.

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

(English) The wild or fierce man.

Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

An older orthography of Savage.

Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

Umfrid Salvage, Normandy 1180; Walter, 1195 (Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae); Ralph, Ranulph Salvage or Sauvage, 1198 (Ib.); Walter Salvage, Eng. c. 1272 (Rotuli Hundredorum).

The Norman People (1874)

Savage is an ancient Gloucestershire name, which was represented as Savage or Sauvage in this county as well as in Wilts, in the reign of Edward I. In that reign it was also numerous in one form or the other in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, where it is still established (H. R.).

Homes of Family Names in Great Britain (1890) by Henry Brougham Guppy

Salvage Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Salvage Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Salvage occurs in England more than any other country/territory. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Salvage? popularity and diffusion

The surname Salvage is the 200,601st most numerous last name in the world, borne by around 1 in 3,503,628 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 46 percent of Salvage are found; 34 percent are found in Northern Europe and 33 percent are found in British Isles. It is also the 925,156th most frequently occurring first name worldwide. It is borne by 104 people.

The surname Salvage is most widespread in England, where it is held by 633 people, or 1 in 88,022. In England Salvage is most prevalent in: East Sussex, where 22 percent live, Greater London, where 13 percent live and West Sussex, where 9 percent live. Besides England this surname exists in 27 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 28 percent live and France, where 12 percent live.

Salvage Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Salvage has changed over time. In England the number of people bearing the Salvage surname rose 220 percent between 1881 and 2014; in The United States it rose 1,058 percent between 1880 and 2014; in Wales it rose 210 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it rose 180 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it contracted 50 percent between 1901 and 2014.

Salvage Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those holding the Salvage surname is chiefly Catholic (50%) in Ireland.

In The United States Salvage are 4.91% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 51.68% registered to vote for the political party.

The amount Salvage earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 74.9% more than the national average, earning R 415,620 per year; in United States they earn 7.95% more than the national average, earning $46,579 USD per year and in Canada they earn 1.48% less than the national average, earning $48,946 CAD per year.

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