Sauvage Family Crest & Name History

Spelling was not fixed until the modern era, so Savage could easily become Sauvage. The name is usually explained as “Wild, of the woods”. Before spelling was fixed, Savage was also written Sauvage. You may also find the name written Le Sauvage and Savadge.

Sauvage ranked 51,723 in the 2010 US Census, with 402 people answering to the name. 19,686 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Sauvage name at birth. There were 910 such births in the 1890s and 1,853 in the 1990s.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Sauvage, so the heraldry linked to Savage is a starting point, not an automatic right. Get the complete Sauvage report, with a museum-style coat of arms.