Sanken
surname · Latin script
Meaning: first/third-person plural preterite of sinken
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sanken is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 2.4Mas แสนเคน(inferred from the name graph)
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sanken 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4M (inferred from the name graph)
≈29 named แสนเคน, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Thailand, est., as แสนเคน
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled แสนเคน in TH Thailand.
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)
first/third-person plural preterite of sinken
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sanken 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | #1,001,751 | แสนเคน | 14 |
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.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sanken mean, and where does it come from?
- first/third-person plural preterite of sinken Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Sanken have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 people named แสนเคน in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sanken?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 people in Thailand have แสนเคน as their first surname, about 1 in 2.4 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sankenThe 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, “Sanken”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.