Sandoval

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: province of Burgos, earlier called Sannoval, from L saltus grove, wood (see Sault) + novalis newly cleared land (see Novais)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/sandobal/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sandoval is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Chile it is the 44th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 323(measured from records)
  • CLChile≈1 in 330
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 368

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.

United States (measured from records)

128,948 people, 2010

#379 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
452 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 323 (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SandovalLatin(measured from records)
СандовальCyrillic(measured from records)

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)

province of Burgos, earlier called Sannoval, from L saltus grove, wood (see Sault) + novalis newly cleared land (see Novais).

Sources 1

  • A dictionary of surnames

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

How Sandoval is read(measured from records)

Sandoval is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish74%

    province of Burgos, earlier called Sannoval, from L saltus grove, wood (see Sault) + novalis newly cleared land (see Novais).

    as a nameA dictionary of surnames

  • English16%

    county, NM

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sandoval 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 Sandoval is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#729128,9481 in 2.6K129KSandoval452
CO Colombia#107≈70,000 est.≈1 in 70531Sandoval181
PE Peru#60≈67,000 est.≈1 in 478—Sandoval127
AR Argentina#11163,7621 in 71364KSandoval113
CL Chile#44≈55,000 est.≈1 in 3301Sandoval154
SV El Salvador#63≈18,000 est.≈1 in 36818KSandoval82
NI Nicaragua#54≈16,000 est.≈1 in 393—Sandoval53
CR Costa Rica#8715,7661 in 32316KSandoval91

128,948 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); 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).

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

Sandoval is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname28 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Sändöväl, Sąndovąl, Sândôvâl, Sandöval, Sandōval

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Sandovàl, Sándoval, Sando-Val, Sandóval

  • Hindi surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Philippines, Spain

    Languages: Hindi, Sinhala, Urdu

    Also written Sandöval

  • Korean surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Korea, Canada, United Kingdom

    Also written Sándoval, 샌도벌

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Spain, Peru

    Also written Sändöväl

60 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)

190019502000Nicanor Parra, b. 1914Violeta Parra, b. 1917Arturo Sandoval, b. 1949Miguel Sandoval, b. 1951Brian Sandoval, b. 1963Aristóteles Sandoval, b. 1974Pablo Sandoval, b. 1986Charles Aránguiz, b. 1989Óliver Ortíz, b. 1993Edgar Sandoval Jr, b. 1995

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)

FormalEstimado/a Sandoval,Dear Sandoval, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Sandoval,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 46 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Sandoval
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010129K#233
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020125K#244
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200096K#287
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—64K—
SV El SalvadorEl Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived)—18K#70
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—16K#125
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—31#85
CR Costa RicaTSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Sandoval mean, and where does it come from?
province of Burgos, earlier called Sannoval, from L saltus grove, wood (see Sault) + novalis newly cleared land (see Novais). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
How do you pronounce Sandoval?
A machine transcription gives /sandobal/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Sandoval have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 129 thousand people named Sandoval, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sandoval.
Where is Sandoval most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sandoval is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 323 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sandoval?
In the United States, the national register counted 128,948 people named Sandoval in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
How common is Sandoval compared with other names?
In the United States, Sandoval is the 729th most common surname of 6,282,806 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, “Sandoval” — the 729th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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