Sanchês

surname · Latin script

Sanchês is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Sanchez. By surface analysis, Sancho + -es. Compare Spanish Sánchez.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 2.5K
  • COColombia≈1 in 3.8K

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.

Brazil (inferred from the name graph)

≈86,000 people, est.

Record sources
227 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sanches in BR Brazil, US United States, CO Colombia and 2 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)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Sanchez. By surface analysis, Sancho + -es. Compare Spanish Sánchez.

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Sanchês 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 Sanchês is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#205≈86,000 est.≈1 in 2.5K161Sanches192
CO Colombia#676≈13,000 est.≈1 in 3.8K—Sanches48
US United States—7,8831 in 42K7.9KSanches227
PT Portugal#224≈4,100 est.≈1 in 2.5K—Sanches102
BO Bolivia#624≈3,500 est.≈1 in 3.4K—Sanches20
CV Cape Verde—≈190 est.≈1 in 3.1K8—27

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: Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CNE — Listas concorrentes (Eleicoes Legislativas 2026). 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)

Sanchês is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Sanches, Sanchés, Sánches, Šänčhëš, Šänčhěš

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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Sanchês under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Sanchês mean, and where does it come from?
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Sanchez. By surface analysis, Sancho + -es. Compare Spanish Sánchez. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Sanchês have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 86 thousand people named Sanchês in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sanches.
How common is the name Sanchês?
In the United States, the national register counted 7,883 people named Sanchês in 2010, about 1 in 42 thousand residents.
How common is Sanchês compared with other names?
In Brazil, Sanchês is the 205th most common surname of 424,864 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, “Sanchês” — the 205th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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