Sanne
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sanne is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country, where it is the 98th most common given name. In Danish, recorded as a diminutive of the female given name Susanne.
- NLNetherlands1 in 558(measured from records)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 6.9K
- DKDenmark1 in 1K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- 1 in 558 (inferred from the name graph)
30,984 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
diminutive of Sanson; first attested Eynon son of Sanne 1260 AssCh
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sanne is read(measured from records)
Sanne is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- Dutch42%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sanne in Dutch.
- Danish16%
a diminutive of the female given name Susanne
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English12%
diminutive of Sanson; first attested Eynon son of Sanne 1260 AssCh
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
- German6.2%
from SAN; also from an ON near Magdeburg
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
1. s. SAN. 2. ON. Magdeb. Sann | eT (x Alex- ander), emann Sant-, Sanz: s. SAND Santen, Santner: s. Xanten
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Sanne 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #98 | 30,984 | 1 in 558 | 31K | Sanne | 143 |
| DK Denmark | — | 5,780 | 1 in 1K | 5.8K | Sanne | 3 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | 10 | Sanne | 81 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,031 | 1 in 9.9K | 1K | Sanne | 36 |
| NO Norway | — | 993 | 1 in 5.5K | 3.5K | Sanne | 20 |
30,984 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Sanne is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Sanne är en (framför allt dansk) sidoform till → Sanna. I Danmark var namnet mycket populärt på 1950–70-talet. En känd namnbärare är rocksångerskan Sanne Salomonsen (f. 1955).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In pi, locative singular masculine/neuter & accusative plural masculine & vocative singular feminine of sanna, which is past participle of sandati (“to flow”)
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)
- Sanne van Havelteb. 1889NLDutch writer (1889-1968)
- Sanne Wohlenbergb. 1968DEGerman-born television producer
- Sanne Vogelb. 1984NLDutch actress
- Sanne Troelsgaard Nielsenb. 1988DKDanish association football player
- Selah Sueb. 1989BEnot in their usual nameBelgian musician and songwriter
- Sanne Weversb. 1991NLDutch artistic gymnast
- Sanne Verhagenb. 1992NLDutch judoka
- Sanne van Dijkeb. 1995NLDutch judoka (born 1995)
- Sanne Vloetb. 1995NLDutch model
- Sanne Koolenb. 1996NLDutch field hockey player
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 55 sources across 24 countries.
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- In which country does Sanne have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 31 thousand people named Sanne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sanne.
- Where is Sanne most common?
- Sanne is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 558 people carrying it.
- Where does the name Sanne come from?
- diminutive of Sanson; first attested Eynon son of Sanne 1260 AssCh Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Is Sanne a male or female name?
- Sanne 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.
- What are other forms of the name Sanne?
- In the etymology graph, Susan, Susana and Sue are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Sanne mean?
- In Danish, a diminutive of the female given name Susanne
- How common is the name Sanne?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 30,984 people named Sanne, about 1 in 558 residents.
- How common is Sanne compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Sanne is the 98th most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sanne?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sanneThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Sanne” — the 98th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.