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Across the world, Sancho (Sancho , Санчо , מלך) is quite a common mostly boy's, but uncommonly girly given name. The first name Sancho is habitual in Philippines, where it is quite a rare masculine name, Portugal, and Cameroon, where it is a rare masculine name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in Philippines, India, and Spain. Also, Sancho is the last name as well as the forename.
Sancho is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Sancho Panza , the fictional character in the novel Don Quixote; Sancho (Sancho Panza) , the operatic character in the opera Don Quichotte by Jules Massenet; Sancho Proudfoot , the Middle-Earth character; Sancho Pansa , the operatic character in the opera Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho and Sancho Panza , the operatic character in the opera Die Hochzeit des Camacho by Felix Mendelssohn, among other works.