Sànchez

surname · Latin script

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

Sànchez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Sánchez, from Sancho+-ez. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 49(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 61
  • ECEcuador1 in 75

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

818,287 people

#34 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
564 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 49 (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SànchezLatin(measured from records)
СанчесCyrillic(measured from records)
ซานเชสThai(measured from records)
산체스Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sanchez in US United States, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 4 more and Sánchez in CR Costa Rica.

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(measured from records)

From Spanish Sánchez, from Sancho+-ez. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .

Sources 4

  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sànchez 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.

Where Sànchez is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#7818,2871 in 61818KSanchez322
US United States#29612,7521 in 543613KSanchez564
CO Colombia#7≈400,000 est.≈1 in 1245.6KSanchez237
AR Argentina#10360,7261 in 126361KSanchez201
VE Venezuela#7≈340,000 est.≈1 in 842KSanchez136
EC Ecuador#736224,0111 in 75224KSanchez123
DO Dominican Republic#5≈130,000 est.≈1 in 80—Sanchez128
CR Costa Rica#191105,0851 in 49105KSánchez143
UY Uruguay—45,2491 in 7545K—111

818,287 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); RNEC — Nombres más registrados (newborn name statistics); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sànchez is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Peru

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Sanchez, Sánchez, Sanchéz, Sanchèz, Sãnchez

  • a separate name20 spellings in the group

    Also written San-Chez, Sănchez, Sånchez, Sán-Chez, Sānchez

25 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Josep Solà i Sànchez, b. 1930Joan Anton Sànchez Carreté, b. 1950Sixte Cambra i Sànchez, b. 1952Cèlia Sànchez-Mústich, b. 1954Antoni Sànchez-Cuxart, b. 1963Jordi Sànchez i Picanyol, b. 1964Xavi Múrcia, b. 1969Isabel Vallet i Sànchez, b. 1980Ivan Sànchez i Rodríguez, b. 1982

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(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Sànchez mean, and where does it come from?
From Spanish Sánchez, from Sancho+-ez. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
In which country does Sànchez have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 818 thousand people named Sànchez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sanchez.
Where is Sànchez most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sànchez is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 49 people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sànchez?
In Spain, the national register counted 818,287 people named Sànchez, about 1 in 61 residents.
How common is Sànchez compared with other names?
In Spain, Sànchez is the 7th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Sànchez” — the 7th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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