Sen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Orthographic variation im Auslaut: ss vs
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sɛn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Türkiye it is the 27th most common surname.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 411(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 6.1K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 297as Sani
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 Sen 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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- #345 (measured from records)
- 12 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 459 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 411 (inferred from the name graph)
≈720,000 named Sani, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
21 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sana in PK Pakistan, MA Morocco, Sani in NG Nigeria, ID Indonesia, Soni in IN India and Şen in TR Türkiye.
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)
Orthographic variation im Auslaut: ss vs. ß nach Konsonant; 14+74 Belege.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sen 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈720,000 est. | ≈1 in 297 | listed | Sani | 63 |
| IN India | #78 | 218,303 | 1 in 6.1K | 218K | Soni | 293 |
| TR Türkiye | #27 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 411 | #94 | Şen | 125 |
| PK Pakistan | #597 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 7K | listed | Sana | 133 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | listed | Sani | 151 |
| AR Argentina | — | 16,831as Sena | 1 in 2.7K | 17K | Jona | 39 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | listed | Sana | 96 |
| FI Finland | — | 3,007as Suni | 1 in 1.9K | 26K | Sanna | 10 |
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; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
Sen is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Self.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Hindu surname from Sanskrit sena ('army').
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In Vietnamese, Lotus
as a nameVietnamese Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 37)
Dustbin, garbage pail; nick-name
as a nameA Handbook of African Names
Hada del bosque
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Sun Quanb. 182CNnot in their usual nameEmperor of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period
- Sun Tzub. 544CNnot in their usual name6th century BCE Chinese general and military strategist
- Sun Yat-senb. 1866CNChinese politician, physician, and revolutionary (1866–1925)
- Mrinal Senb. 1923INIndian film director (1923–2018)
- Amartya Senb. 1933INIndian economist and philosopher (1933-)
- Aparna Senb. 1945INIndian filmmaker, script writer and actress
- Masayoshi Sonb. 1957JPnot in their usual nameJapanese businessman
- Nandana Senb. 1967USAmerican actress
- Sushmita Senb. 1975INIndian actress (1975-present)
- Stefanie Sunb. 1978SGnot in their usual nameSingaporean singer
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)
Attested in 67 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 218K | #105 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 230 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 123 | #10,927 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Sen come from?
- Orthographic variation im Auslaut: ss vs. ß nach Konsonant; 14+74 Belege. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus.
- What does the name Sen mean?
- Recorded meaning: Orthographic variation im Auslaut: ss vs.
- How do you pronounce Sen?
- A machine transcription gives /sɛn/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Sen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 721 thousand people named Sani in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sen?
- In India, the national register counted 218,303 people named Sen, about 1 in 6.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Sen compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Sen is the 27th most common surname of 619,652 surnames 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/senThe 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, “Sen” — the 27th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.