Sanabría
surname · Latin script
Sanabría is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In Paraguay it is the 41st most common surname. Recorded meaning: * Fernández de Prada aludes to Celtic origin Senabriga: sena- (mount) + -brigā (fortress). Sanabría is also written Санабриа in Cyrillic.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 220(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 456
- COColombia≈1 in 980
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 Sanabría itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 312 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 217 (inferred from the name graph)
≈54,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Sanabría in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sanabria in AR Argentina, PY Paraguay, CO Colombia 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
(measured from records)* Fernández de Prada aludes to Celtic origin Senabriga: sena- (mount) + -brigā (fortress).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Sanabría is found
(measured from records)Sanabría 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #185 | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 982 | 31 | Sanabria | 158 |
| PY Paraguay | #41 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 217 | — | Sanabria | 57 |
| AR Argentina | #262 | 30,115 | 1 in 1.5K | 30K | Sanabria | 93 |
| MX Mexico | #821 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | 232 | Sanabria | 141 |
| VE Venezuela | #312 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Sanabria | 57 |
| CR Costa Rica | #108 | 11,186 | 1 in 456 | 11K | Sanabria | 93 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 2,379 | 1 in 1.4K | 2.4K | — | 41 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sanabría mean, and where does it come from?
- * Fernández de Prada aludes to Celtic origin Senabriga: sena- (mount) + -brigā (fortress). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sanabría?
- Mondonomo estimates about 54 thousand people named Sanabría in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sanabria. After it come Paraguay, Argentina, Mexico and Venezuela; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sanabría?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 30,115 people named Sanabría, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Sanabría compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Sanabría is the 185th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sanabr%C3%ADaThe 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, “Sanabría” — ranked 85th in Colombia (the co-datosgov-candidates register). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.