Sannan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Core, (Dictionary of Islamic Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries
Sannan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 61K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 1.3M
- USUnited States≈1 in 2.3Mfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- 1 in 61K (inferred from the name graph)
≈240 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Core,
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of Islamic Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Sannan is found
(measured from records)Sannan 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Sannan 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 Icelandic, masculine singular accusative strong positive degree of sannur
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, genitive singular of santa
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In non, assertation, confirmation
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sannan mean, and where does it come from?
- Core, Recorded by Dictionary of Islamic Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sannan?
- Mondonomo estimates about 238 people named Sannan in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sannan. After it come United States, Syria, Norway and Lebanon; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Sannan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sannan is densest in Norway — about 1 in 61 thousand people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sannan?
- In Norway, the national register counted 90 people named Sannan, about 1 in 61 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sannan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sannanThe 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, “Sannan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.