Sáenz
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/saenθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sáenz 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 Sáenz 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 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sáenz 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- José Saenz d'Aguirreb. 1630ESCatholic cardinal (1630-1699)
- Lorenzo de Zavalab. 1788MXnot in their usual name19th-century Mexican politician (1788-1836)
- Manuela Sáenzb. 1797ECEcuadorian revolutionary heroine (1797-1856)
- Aniceto Esquivel Sáenzb. 1824CRPresident of Costa Rica (1824-1898)
- Manuel Quintanab. 1835ARnot in their usual nameArgentine politician (1835–1906)
- Roque Sáenz Peñab. 1851ARArgentine politician, president of Argentina (1851-1914)
- Benjamin Alire Sáenzb. 1954USpoet, novelist and writer from the United States
- José Ignacio Sáenzb. 1973ESSpanish football player/director
- Juan Arangob. 1980VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan footballer
- Elisabeth Pinedob. 1981ESnot in their usual nameSpanish handball player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 1 | #115 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Sáenz?
- A machine transcription gives /saenθ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Sáenz 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 Sáenz most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sáenz 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 Sáenz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 33,787 people named Sáenz in 2010, about 1 in 9.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Sáenz compared with other names?
- In Spain, Sáenz is the 292nd most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sáenz?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A1enzThe 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, “Sáenz” — the 292nd most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.