About the Sergent Surname

Your Sergent ancestor may well appear as Sargent in earlier records. Its meaning, shared with Sargent, is “Servant, officer”.

• Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.
• Sergent writes “e” in place of the “a” found in Sargent, a typical scribal difference.
• The 2010 US Census counted 2,957 people named Sergent, ranking it number 10,787 among American surnames. It sits among the 25,000 most common last names in the country. 9,900 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Sergent name at birth.

Heraldry and the Sergent name

Arms linked to Sargent and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Sergent report, with a museum-style coat of arms.