Sannes
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈsænz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sannes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Norwegian Sannes, a variant of Sandnes.
- NONorway1 in 3.6K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 79K
- SESweden1 in 340K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
1,536 people
Reference-verified
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Norwegian Sannes, a variant of Sandnes.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sannes 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 1,536 | 1 in 3.6K | 1.5K | — | 2 |
| US United States | 737 | 1 in 451K | 760 | Sannes | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | 218 | 1 in 79K | 218 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 31 | 1 in 6.8M | 31 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 30 | 1 in 340K | 30 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 17 | 1 in 345K | 17 | — | — |
1,536 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Olav Sannesb. 1871NONorwegian politician (1871–1946)
- Goswijn Sannesb. 1875NLDutch politician (1875-1930)
- Hartman Sannesb. 1890NLDutch writer (1890-1956)
- Odd Sannesb. 1922NOsport shooter (1922–1999)
- Eivin Sannesb. 1937NONorwegian pianist (1937–2019)
- Tor Borch Sannesb. 1940NONorwegian journalist
- Brenda K. Sannesb. 1958USUnited States District Judge
- Halvor Landeb. 1973NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian rower
- Vegard Sannesb. 1976NONorwegian footballer
- Amy Sannesb. 1977USAmerican speed skater
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Sannes mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Norwegian Sannes, a variant of Sandnes. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Sannes?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsænz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sannes have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Sannes, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sannes most common?
- Sannes is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sannes?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,536 people named Sannes, about 1 in 3.6 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sannesThe 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, “Sannes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.