Sanic
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/sanik/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Sanic is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Guatemala than in any other country.
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 5.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 108K
- USUnited States1 in 2.3M
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.
- Guatemala (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Sanic
- Spanish:/sanik/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Sanic is found
(measured from records)Sanic 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.
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Sanic?
- In Spanish /sanik/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sanic?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Sanic in Guatemala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sanic. After it come United States, Croatia, Spain and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sanic?
- In the United States, the national register counted 142 people named Sanic in 2010, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
- How common is Sanic compared with other names?
- In Guatemala, Sanic is the 455th most common surname of 54,341 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sanicThe 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, “Sanic” — the 455th most common surname in Guatemala. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.