Sanek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: genitive plural of sanki
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sanek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 78K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 158K
- USUnited States≈1 in 3.3M
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 78K (inferred from the name graph)
242 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Šaněk in CZ Czechia.
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)
genitive plural of sanki
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sanek 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 242 | 1 in 158K | 130 | Sanek | 20 |
| CZ Czechia | 138 | 1 in 78K | 138 | Šaněk | 10 |
| US United States | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | listed | Sanek | 3 |
| RU Russia | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 7M | — | Sanek | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 6.3M | — | Sanek | 3 |
242 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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)
Sanek is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ami, to sniff, smell something
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In ami, a bad odor, smell
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In szy, taste
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 130 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 130 | #23,809 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 112 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 112 | #27,392 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Sanek mean, and where does it come from?
- genitive plural of sanki Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Sanek have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 242 people named Sanek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sanek.
- Where is Sanek most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sanek is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 78 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sanek?
- In Poland, the national register counted 242 people named Sanek in 2026, about 1 in 158 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sanek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sanekThe 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, “Sanek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.