Sanela
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanela kan vara en bildning till latinets sanus (fem
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sanela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bosnia & Herzegovina than in any other country, where it is the 54th most common given name.
- RSSerbia≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 1.8K
- USUnited States1 in 387K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sanela itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bosnia & Herzegovina (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 275 (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
Sanela kan vara en bildning till latinets sanus (fem. sana) ’hälsosam’. Namnet används ofta på Balkan. Den populära sången Sanela med artisten Šaban Šaulić 1978 gjorde namnet mer känt där.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sanela 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #54 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 275 | — | Sanela | 31 |
| RS Serbia | #213 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | listed | Sanela | 42 |
| HR Croatia | #382 | 2,299 | 1 in 1.8K | 2.3K | Sanela | 68 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | 97 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 860 | 1 in 387K | 860 | Sanela | 126 |
| SI Slovenia | #464 | 840 | 1 in 2.5K | 848 | Sanela | 16 |
| MK North Macedonia | #534 | 748as Санела | 1 in 2.8K | 748 | Sanela | 7 |
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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); State Statistical Office — living population names; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sanela Redžepagićb. 1971BABosnian opera singer
- Sanela Diana Jenkinsb. 1973BABosnian entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Sanela Sijerčićb. 1976BABosnian singer
- Sanel Kuljićb. 1977ATnot in their usual nameassociation football player
- Sanela Knezovićb. 1979HRCroatian handball player
- Sanel Ibrahimovićb. 1987BAnot in their usual nameBosnian association football player
- Sanel Kapidžićb. 1990BAnot in their usual nameDanish footballer (born 1990)
- Sanel Šaljićb. 2005ATnot in their usual nameAustrian footballer (born 2007)
- Sanel Kasibovicnot in their usual nameactor
- Sanela BanovićSIresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 2.3K | #341 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 860 | #13,879 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 848 | #438 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 840 | #227 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 825 | #228 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 795 | #232 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 780 | #231 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 775 | #231 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 751 | #233 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 732 | #236 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2018 | 721 | #235 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Sanela mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sanela kan vara en bildning till latinets sanus (fem.
- Is Sanela a male or female name?
- Sanela is a female 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.
- In which country does Sanela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Sanela in Bosnia & Herzegovina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sanela.
- How common is the name Sanela?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 2,299 people named Sanela in 2021, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Sanela compared with other names?
- In Bosnia & Herzegovina, Sanela is the 54th most common given name of 4,559 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sanelaThe 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, “Sanela” — the 54th most common given name in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.