Sardiña
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/saɾðiɲa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Sardiña is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variante di Sardella.
- GYGuyana1 in 75K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 201K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 194 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
1,652 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sardina in US United States.
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)Variante di Sardella
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sardiña 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.
1,652 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Sardiña is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, sardine (especially European pilchard (Sardina pilchardus))
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Celestino Sardiña Navarrob. 1883ESSpanish politician
- Juan Rodríguez Sardiñab. 1894ESbotanist
- Constante Nogueirab. 1900ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician
- Celestino Sardiña Fernándezb. 1933ESSpanish politician
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 690 | #6,142 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 690 | #6,140 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 156 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Sardiña mean, and where does it come from?
- Variante di Sardella Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Sardiña?
- In Spanish /saɾðiɲa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Sardiña have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Sardiña, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sardina.
- Where is Sardiña most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sardiña is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sardiña?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,652 people named Sardiña in 2010, about 1 in 201 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sardiña?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sardi%C3%B1aThe 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, “Sardiña”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.