Sanaullah

given name · Latin script

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

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: naampy, 2015

Pronunciation:Explore pronunciation →

Sanaullah is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: praise of Allah.

  • AFAfghanistan≈1 in 5.1Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 8.3K
  • BDBangladesh≈1 in 38Kfew records

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.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈30,000 people, est.

Record sources
70 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Afghanistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

praise of Allah

Cited for this meaning 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Sanaullah 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 Sanaullah is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#659≈30,000 est.≈1 in 8.3KlistedSanaullah70
IN India—≈9,200 est.≈1 in 157K7Sanaullah47
AF Afghanistan#833≈8,400 est.≈1 in 5.1K—Sanaullah18
BD Bangladesh—≈4,600 est.≈1 in 38K—Sanaullah36
AE United Arab Emirates—≈410 est.≈1 in 27K—Sanaullah1
SE Sweden—121 in 850K12—4

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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

Sanaullah is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written S̲anāulláh, Sanāullah, Sana-Ullah

  • Sinhala given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan

  • Spanish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Sãñâûlläh

  • Turkish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India

    Also written Şanaullah

36 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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Sanaullah 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 Arabic, praise of Allah

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

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)

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)
Informalनमस्ते Sanaullah जी,Hi Sanaullah, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence

(measured from records)

16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Sanaullah mean, and where does it come from?
praise of Allah Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
Is Sanaullah a male or female name?
Sanaullah is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Which countries have the most people named Sanaullah?
Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Sanaullah in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sanaullah. After it come India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and United Arab Emirates; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Sanaullah?
In Sweden, the national register counted 12 people named Sanaullah, about 1 in 850 thousand residents.
How common is Sanaullah compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Sanaullah is the 659th most common given name of 77,659 given names 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, “Sanaullah” — the 659th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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