Sanok

loc · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Sanok is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Sanok (a town in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland).

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 175K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.8M
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 3.5M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sanok 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.

Poland (measured from records)

219 people, 2026

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
90 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 175K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SanokLatin(measured from records)
สาตร์นอกThai(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled สาตร์นอก 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)

Sanok (a town in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sanok 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 Sanok is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland2191 in 175K111Sanok20
US United States1851 in 1.8M208—90
TH Thailand≈140 est.≈1 in 491K#693,946สาตร์นอก31
GB United Kingdom≈19 est.≈1 in 3.5M10Sanok23
IN India≈18 est.≈1 in 72M1—1
BE Belgium31 in 3.9M3—2

219 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sanok is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written San-Ok

  • Korean given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Korea

    Also written 산옥

23 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)

Sanok is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In pag, anger

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Sanok
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020208#94,341
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010185#98,099
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000182#93,427
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026111—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—111#27,600
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026108—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—108#27,830
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)200210#143,714
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20083#124,392
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Sanok mean, and where does it come from?
Sanok (a town in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Sanok have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 219 people named Sanok, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sanok.
Where is Sanok most common?
Sanok is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 175 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Sanok?
In Poland, the national register counted 219 people named Sanok in 2026, about 1 in 175 thousand 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, “Sanok”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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