Sanno

given name · Latin script

Meaning: short form of SAN

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

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

Sanno is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 2.6M(inferred from the name graph)
  • SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 2.8M
  • NLNetherlands1 in 2.9M

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.

Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)

≈100 people, est.

Sources
34 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.6M (inferred from the name graph)

Indonesia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

short form of SAN

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sanno 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 Sanno is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia≈100 est.≈1 in 2.6M—Sanno14
PK Pakistan≈55 est.≈1 in 4.2M—Sanno5
SA Saudi Arabia≈12 est.≈1 in 2.8M—Sanno5
US United States≈8 est.≈1 in 43MlistedSanno4
NL Netherlands61 in 2.9M6—1
ES Spain≈1 est.≈1 in 35M8—2

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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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)

Sanno is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Netherlands

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Sannö, Sannoe

  • Japanese given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Japan

    Also written Sannô

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Sannö, Śanno

  • Thai surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, India

    Also written แสนโน, แสนหน่อ, Saenno, สาริโน, แสนน่อ

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Sannô

  • Italian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Sannò, Sannö

24 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Sanno is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In pi, nominative singular masculine of sanna, which is past participle of sandati (“to flow”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, (they) know

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000James M. J. Sanno, b. 1840Hirotaka Sanno, b. 1940Erika Sanno, b. 1987

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)

Informalनमस्ते Sanno जी,Hi Sanno, (English)

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 8 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Sanno
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—6#38,231
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—6#24,300

Reference works 2

  • 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 Sanno mean, and where does it come from?
short form of SAN Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
How do you pronounce Sanno?
A machine transcription gives /sænoʊ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
Is Sanno a male or female name?
Sanno is a female 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 Sanno have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 101 people named Sanno in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sanno.
How common is the name Sanno?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 6 people named Sanno, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.

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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, “Sanno”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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