Sanabria
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sanabria is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In Paraguay it is the 41st most common surname. Recorded meaning: Region of Zamora, Spain.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 238(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 456
- COColombia≈1 in 1.4K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 312 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 238 (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, 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)
Region of Zamora, Spain.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sanabria 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #185 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 31 | Sanabria | 158 |
| PY Paraguay | #41 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 238 | — | Sanabria | 57 |
| AR Argentina | #262 | 30,115 | 1 in 1.5K | 30K | Sanabria | 93 |
| VE Venezuela | #312 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Sanabria | 57 |
| CR Costa Rica | #108 | 11,186 | 1 in 456 | 11K | Sanabria | 93 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 2,379 | 1 in 1.4K | 2.4K | — | 41 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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)
- Edgar Sanabriab. 1911VEPresident of Venezuela (1911-1989)
- Simeón Cubab. 1935BOnot in their usual nameBolivian-born Marxist, member of Che Guevara's ELN guerrilla movement (1935-1967)
- Rubén Ayalab. 1950ARnot in their usual nameArgentine footballer
- Bobby Sanabriab. 1957USLatin Jazz musician
- Javier Sotomayorb. 1967CUnot in their usual nameCuban high jumper
- Jery Sandovalb. 1986COnot in their usual nameactress, singer and model
- Lorenzo Melgarejob. 1990PYnot in their usual nameParaguayan footballer
- Antonio Sanabriab. 1996PYfootballer
- Orluis Aularb. 1996VEnot in their usual namecyclist from Venezuela
- Juan Manuel Sanabriab. 2000UYUruguayan association football 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 28 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 30K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 11K | #151 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 2.4K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 31 | #85 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Sanabria mean, and where does it come from?
- Region of Zamora, Spain. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Sanabria have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Sanabria in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sanabria.
- How common is the name Sanabria?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 30,115 people named Sanabria, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Sanabria compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Sanabria is the 185th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sanabriaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Sanabria” — the 185th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.