Sainz
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sainθ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sainz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Sainz, itself of Basque origin.
- ESSpain1 in 4.4K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 4.7K
- ARArgentina1 in 24K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 260 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
11,484 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
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)
Borrowed from Spanish Sainz, itself of Basque origin.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sainz 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.
11,484 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Regino Sainz de la Mazab. 1896ESSpanish guitarist and composer (1896–1981)
- Rafael Sánchez Guerrab. 1897ESnot in their usual nameSpanish football executive (1897-1964)
- Lolo Sainzb. 1940ESbasketball coach
- Gustavo Sainzb. 1940MXMexican writer (1940–2015)
- Tina Sainzb. 1945ESSpanish actress
- Verónica Castrob. 1952MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress and singer
- Carlos Sainzb. 1962ESSpanish racing driver
- Antonia Sainzb. 1992CZCzech pornographic actress
- Carlos Sainz Jr.b. 1994ESSpanish racing driver
- Borja Sainzb. 2001ESSpanish footballer
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 24 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 11K | #485 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 11K | #485 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.9K | #8,511 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.6K | #8,664 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.1K | #9,546 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.9K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 718 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- What does the name Sainz mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Sainz, itself of Basque origin. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Sainz?
- A machine transcription gives /sainθ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Sainz have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Sainz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sainz.
- Where is Sainz most common?
- Sainz is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sainz?
- In Spain, the national register counted 11,484 people named Sainz, about 1 in 4.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Sainz compared with other names?
- In Spain, Sainz is the 342nd most common surname of 395,154 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/sainzThe 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, “Sainz” — the 342nd most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.