Sàenz
surname · Latin script
Sàenz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 619(measured from records)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 952
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sàenz itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 385 (measured from records)
- 1 in 619 (inferred from the name graph)
88,939 named Sanz
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Saenz in US United States, PE Peru, ES Spain and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sàenz counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #292 | 88,939as Sanz | 1 in 562 | 89K | Saenz | 163 |
| US United States | #1000 | 33,787 | 1 in 9.8K | 34K | Saenz | 385 |
| CO Colombia | #274 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 12 | Saenz | 135 |
| PE Peru | #290 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Saenz | 90 |
| CR Costa Rica | #128 | 8,242 | 1 in 619 | 8.2K | Saenz | 84 |
| NI Nicaragua | #121 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 952 | — | Saenz | 36 |
88,939 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos), counting the spelling sanz. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Sàenz have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 89 thousand people named Sanz, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sàenz most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sàenz is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 619 people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sàenz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 33,787 people named Sàenz in 2010, about 1 in 9.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Sàenz compared with other names?
- In Spain, Sàenz is the 292nd most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sàenz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A0enzThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Sàenz” — the 292nd most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.