Serjeant Surname
Approximately 619 people bear this surname
Serjeant Surname Definition:
This surname is derived from an official title. 'the sergeant' or Serjeant, an officer of the law, a policeman. Few surnames have undergone more varieties of spelling than this. Even in our latest dictionaries two forms are recognized. Agreeing with Old French sergant and serjant, Serjaunt is the commonest form in early rolls.
Read More About This SurnameSerjeant Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 300 | 1:185,727 | 16,605 |
| United States | 102 | 1:3,553,519 | 199,004 |
| New Zealand | 71 | 1:63,779 | 9,777 |
| Canada | 61 | 1:604,026 | 49,778 |
| Australia | 51 | 1:529,327 | 39,816 |
| Scotland | 7 | 1:764,831 | 25,488 |
| Wales | 7 | 1:442,076 | 21,198 |
| South Africa | 6 | 1:9,029,617 | 189,736 |
| Singapore | 4 | 1:1,376,926 | 28,409 |
| Hong Kong | 3 | 1:2,445,161 | 9,595 |
| Spain | 2 | 1:23,376,018 | 128,922 |
| Germany | 2 | 1:40,252,730 | 481,636 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Jamaica | 1 | 1:2,869,947 | 13,896 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 240 | 1:101,564 | 10,213 |
| Wales | 9 | 1:174,268 | 6,522 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:3,743,216 | 32,299 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 21 | 1:2,391,366 | 115,093 |
Serjeant Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
This surname is derived from an official title. 'the sergeant' or Serjeant, an officer of the law, a policeman. Few surnames have undergone more varieties of spelling than this. Even in our latest dictionaries two forms are recognized. Agreeing with Old French sergant and serjant, Serjaunt is the commonest form in early rolls.
John le Serjaunt, Buckinghamshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.
Walter le Serjaunt, Cambridgeshire, ibid.
John le Serjant, Salop, ibid.
Robert Sergant, Cambridgeshire, ibid.
Roger le Serjaunt, Norfolk, ibid.
Nicholas le Serjaunt, Lincolnshire, 20 Edward I: Placita de Quo Warranto, temp. Edward I-III.
Thomas Elys, serjaunt, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.
= Sergeant, q.v.
N’i aura ancelle [Latin ancilla, maidservant] ni serjant.—Bible Guyot; Moisy.
Serjaunt and Serjant are the usual 13th- cent. forms in England, as John le Serjaunt.—Hundred Rolls
Old French, from Latin Spelman says a serjeant-at-law is so called because serv-lens ad legem. We have also serjeants-at-arms, serjeants-at-mace, &c. Cotgrave makes a sergent, "a footman or souldier that serves on foot." Gibbon, on the contrary, applies the word to "all horsemen who were not knights." Richardson.
Malger and Gislebert Serviens, Normandy 1180-95; Gislebert, Horsel, Roger S., 1198 (Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae); Robert Serviens, William Sergent, Engl. c. 1198 (Rotuli Curiae Regis); Henry, Herbert, Simon, Walter Serviens, 1202 (Rotulus Cancellarii).
From the Frisian, Sergeant; a personal name.
Thomas Serjeant was a Moulton gentleman in Elizabeth's reign (T.).
Serjeant Demographics
Average Serjeant Salary in
United States
$43,601 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
View the highest/lowest earning families in The United States
Serjeant Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Serjeant Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Serjeant is most common in England. It can occur in the variant forms:. Click here to see other possible spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Serjeant? popularity and diffusion
It is the 524,446th most frequent family name in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 11,773,095 people. It occurs predominantly in Europe, where 52 percent of Serjeant are found; 51 percent are found in Northern Europe and 51 percent are found in British Isles.
Serjeant is most common in England, where it is held by 300 people, or 1 in 185,727. In England it is primarily found in: Suffolk, where 10 percent reside, Merseyside, where 9 percent reside and Devon, where 8 percent reside. Barring England it is found in 14 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 16 percent reside and New Zealand, where 11 percent reside.
Serjeant Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Serjeant has changed over time. In England the number of people carrying the Serjeant last name increased 125 percent between 1881 and 2014; in The United States it increased 486 percent between 1880 and 2014; in Scotland it increased 700 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Wales it fell 22 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Serjeant Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those bearing the Serjeant surname are 0.29% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than the national average, with 52.94% being registered with the party.
The amount Serjeant earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 1482.39% more than the national average, earning R 3,760,360 per year; in United States they earn 1.05% more than the national average, earning $43,601 USD per year and in Canada they earn 11.28% more than the national average, earning $55,287 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Search for Another Surname
The name statistics are still in development, sign up for information on more maps and data
Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Descriptions may contain details on the name's etymology, origin, ethnicity and history. They are largely reproduced from 3rd party sources; diligence is advised on accepting their validity - more information
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Serjeant
- To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on FamilySearch, MyHeritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis