Sanday
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sændeɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sanday is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Notts. see Sandy . 2329.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 64K(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 203K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 253K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 79 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Notts. see Sandy . 2329
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sanday 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Sanday | 22 |
| IN India | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 2M | 9 | Sanday | 6 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 203K | — | Sanday | 7 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Sanday | 7 |
| AU Australia | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | Sanday | 43 |
| AR Argentina | 72 | 1 in 632K | 72 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 601K | — | Sanday | 7 |
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 in-instate-surnames-bystate 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)
Sanday is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Cebuano, lay or rest something on and across something else
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In mrw, to prop, lean (as a gun against a post)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Cebuano, to rest; to lean, lie or lay
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mrw, to lean, to incline
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In poz-pro, to lean or rest on
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In msk, to lean against
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- William Sandayb. 1843GBBritish theologian and biblical scholar (1843–1920)
- Peggy Reeves Sandayb. 1937USanthropologist
- Kirwan Sandayb. 1991AUrugby union player (1991-)
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 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 72 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 9 | #2,917 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #8,749 |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Sanday mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Notts. see Sandy . 2329 Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Sanday?
- A machine transcription gives /sændeɪ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sanday have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Sanday in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sanday.
- How common is the name Sanday?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 72 people named Sanday, about 1 in 632 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sandayThe 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, “Sanday”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.