The placename ending —roth denotes the location of a clearing made for expanding fields or for settling.

The name “Sargenroth” is recorded in the following spellings over the ages: After 1706, the name was usually spelt with a G. The root word is the Old High German rod and the Middle High German rot, meaning a place made tillable by clearing, or simply a clearing.

[4] The village belonged in the Middle Ages to the court district of the Nunkirch (church), and was thereby under the Ravengiersburg provost's authority.

In 1408, the Ravengiersburg holdings passed along with Sargenroth to the Counts Palatine, and then in 1410 to the newly created Duchy of Simmern, which in 1566 introduced the Reformation.

The gold lion refers to the Dukes of Simmern and the Counts Palatine of the Rhine, who were the Vögte and the landholders.

The gold fess (horizontal stripe) on the black field is the arms once borne by the Barons of Wiltberg, the owners of the Wildburg (castle) in the Soonwald (within Sargenroth's limits).

On the Sunday before the market, there is also a festival, the Gau Bergfest, staged by the Turngau Hunsrück (regional organization of the German Gymnastic Association).