Sanchi
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Sanchi is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 295K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 2M
- BRBrazil1 in 3.1M
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 Sanchi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 281K (inferred from the name graph)
943 named Santschi, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Santschi in US United States, CH Switzerland, GH Ghana and 3 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sanchi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | — | 943as Santschi | 1 in 8.9K | 943 | Santschi | 38 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Santschi | 1 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Santschi | 2 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 281K | listed | Santschi | 4 |
| US United States | — | 205as Santschi | 1 in 1.6M | 205 | Santschi | 102 |
| IN India | — | 200 | 1 in 6.6M | 200 | Sanchi | 86 |
| LI Liechtenstein | #264 | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Santschi | 5 |
943 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)Sanchi 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 Romanian, kind of
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, SÁNCHI adv. (Fam.) Vorbă să fie! așa să crezi! cum s-ar zice. [Var.: sánche adv.]. ¶ SÁNCHE adv. v. sanchi.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)- Luigi-Alberto Sanchib. 1971FRFrench hellenist
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 381 | #8,799 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 200 | #17,724 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Sanchi have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 943 people named Santschi, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sanchi?
- In India, the national register counted 200 people named Sanchi, about 1 in 6.6 million residents.
- How common is Sanchi compared with other names?
- In Liechtenstein, Sanchi is the 264th most common surname of 283 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sanchi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sanchiThe 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, “Sanchi” — the 264th most common surname in Liechtenstein. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.