Sanel

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/sənəl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sanel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bosnia & Herzegovina than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SISlovenia1 in 3.6K
  • HRCroatia1 in 15K

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 Sanel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Bosnia & Herzegovina (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,700 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
54 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SanelLatin(measured from records)
ШанелCyrillic(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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sanel 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.

Where Sanel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#167≈2,700 est.≈1 in 1.4K—Sanel26
SI Slovenia#8875891 in 3.6K589Sanel8
AT Austria—≈450 est.≈1 in 20K64——
US United States—4281 in 777K410Sanel54
RS Serbia—≈320 est.≈1 in 22K—Sanel14
HR Croatia—2751 in 15K275Sanel33
MK North Macedonia—134as Санел1 in 16K134—3
XK Kosovo—≈100 est.≈1 in 19K121—4

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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; State Statistical Office — living population names; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sanel is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Austria, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Sanél, Şanel, Șanel, Šanel

  • Spanish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Venezuela, Spain, Philippines

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Şanel, Sánel, Sañel, Sanél

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina

    Also written Šanel

  • Turkish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Cyprus, United Kingdom

    Also written Şanel

  • Arabic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bosnia & Herzegovina, United States, Serbia

    Also written Şanel

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19701980199020002010Sanel Kuljić, b. 1977Sanel Gabela, b. 1980Sanel Ibrahimović, b. 1987Sanel Kapidžić, b. 1990Sanel Bojadzic, b. 1998Sanel Šaljić, b. 2005

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)

InformalHi Sanel,

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 37 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Sanel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2025589#274
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—584#552
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2024574#273
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2023572#268
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2022550#276
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2021537#279
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2020530#280
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2019488#286
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2018441#293
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2017413#299
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020410#23,042
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2016404#298

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name 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

How do you pronounce Sanel?
A machine transcription gives /sənəl/ (IPA) for English.
Is Sanel a male or female name?
Sanel is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Sanel have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Sanel in Bosnia & Herzegovina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sanel.
How common is the name Sanel?
In Slovenia, the national register counted 589 people named Sanel in 2025, about 1 in 3.6 thousand residents.
How common is Sanel compared with other names?
In Bosnia & Herzegovina, Sanel is the 167th most common given name of 4,559 given names recorded there.

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The 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, “Sanel” — the 167th most common given name in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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