Senné
surname · Latin script
Senné is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: * As a German surname, spelling variant of Senn. * As a French surname, from Old French sené (“sage, wise”).
- USUnited States1 in 413K(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 19K
- FIFinland1 in 90K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 197 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Senne in US United States, NL Netherlands, ZA South Africa and 1 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)
- Old Frenchsené“sage“sage, wise”(measured from records)
- Etruscan𐌔𐌄𐌌𐌍𐌀semna(measured from records)
- Etruscan rootsenna“cassia plant”(measured from records)
- Arabicسَنَاsanā“plant whose leaves has cathartic properties”(measured from records)
* As a German surname, spelling variant of Senn. * As a French surname, from Old French sené (“sage, wise”). * As an Italian surname, spelling variant of Senna, from the placenames Senna Lodigiana and Senna Comasco, both possibly from Etruscan 𐌔𐌄𐌌𐌍𐌀 (semna). Also from senna (“cassia plant”), from Arabic سَنَا (sanā, “plant whose leaves has cathartic properties”).
Sources 1
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Senné 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Senne | 27 |
| BR Brazil | 1,435 | 1 in 148K | 1.4K | — | 4 |
| US United States | 806 | 1 in 413K | 808 | Senne | 197 |
| AO Angola | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Senne | 1 |
| FR France | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 345K | 15 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 66 | 1 in 262K | 927 | Senne | 35 |
| FI Finland | 62 | 1 in 90K | 62 | — | 3 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 Senné mean, and where does it come from?
- * As a German surname, spelling variant of Senn. * As a French surname, from Old French sené (“sage, wise”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Senné have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Senné in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled senne.
- How common is the name Senné?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,435 people named Senné, about 1 in 148 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/senn%C3%A9The 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, “Senné”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.