Sagesse

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Sagesse is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Congo - Kinshasa, where it is the 48th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: wisdom, reason, sense.

rarermore common
  • CDCongo - Kinshasa1 in 3.2K
  • CGCongo - Brazzaville1 in 4.5K
  • GAGabon1 in 56K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

2.0K

in 5 countries

Sources
60

1.9K records

Official registry-verified

Meaning & origin

wisdom, reason, sense

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Sagesse is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CD Congo - Kinshasa#481,0331K rec.Sagesse7
FR France180391 rec.Sagesse60
CG Congo - Brazzaville#242525 rec.Sagesse6
US United States23209 rec.209Sagesse54
CM Cameroon1923 rec.Sagesse5
CI Côte d’Ivoire1113 rec.Sagesse3
GA Gabon66 rec.Sagesse4
BR Brazil23

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Languages

  • French1.3K60%
  • English33215%
  • Swahili1939%
  • Portuguese1085%
  • Spanish723%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French1,29660%
English33215%
Swahili1939%
Portuguese1085%
Spanish723%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way

Sagesse is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name943 records spelled Sagesse6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Congo - Kinshasa, United States, Cameroon, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Dutch, German

    Also written Sagèsse, Sägesse, Saegesse

  • Portuguese given name508 records spelled Sagesse4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Congo - Kinshasa, Brazil, United States, Dominican Republic

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Sàgėssę, Säġëssë

  • Indonesian given name53 records spelled Sagesse3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Congo - Kinshasa

    Also written Sagèsse, Sagésse

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

Sagesse is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, wisdom

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence

Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Sagesse
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020209#93,963
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010162#109,258
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)23#177,962
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement)

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 4 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sagesse?
Our records include 2,045 bearers of Sagesse across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Sagesse have the most bearers?
Sagesse is most frequently recorded in the Congo - Kinshasa, where it is most often spelled sagesse.
How common is Sagesse compared with other names?
In the Congo - Kinshasa, Sagesse is the 48th most common given name of 18,770 given names recorded there.
Is Sagesse a male or female name?
Sagesse is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Sagesse mean?
Recorded meaning: wisdom, reason, sense
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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sagesse” — the 48th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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