Sanon

surname · Latin script

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

Sanon is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Haiti than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 113K(measured from records)
  • HTHaiti≈1 in 750
  • CICôte d’Ivoire≈1 in 22K

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.

Haiti (inferred from the name graph)

≈15,000 people, est.

Sources
212 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 750 (inferred from the name graph)

Haiti, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sanon 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 Sanon is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HT Haiti#102≈15,000 est.≈1 in 750listedSanon15
US United States—2,9431 in 113K3KSanon212
CI Côte d’Ivoire—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 22K296——
CL Chile—≈460 est.≈1 in 40K1——
FR France—≈460 est.≈1 in 149K72—2
JM Jamaica—≈110 est.≈1 in 25K—Sanon1

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the ht-potomitan-names register; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)

Sanon is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Canada, Burkina Faso

    Languages: French, Italian

    Also written Sanón

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Sañon, Sanón

  • Thai given name119 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, India, Philippines

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written สนอง, สนม, บุญสนอง, Sanong, แสนอ่อน

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Sanön, Sanón

  • Hungarian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States

    Also written Sanön

37 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)

Sanon 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 Finnish, first-person singular present indicative of sanoa

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

  • In Esperanto, accusative singular of sano

    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)

192019401960198020002020Anselme Titianma Sanon, b. 1937Emmanuel Sanon, b. 1951Guy Mukasa Sanon, b. 1968Valentin Sanon, b. 1980Kriti Sanon, b. 1990Nupur Sanon, b. 1995Jimmy-Shammar Sanon, b. 1997Joson Sanon, b. 2005

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Sanon
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203K#10,248
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.9K#10,822
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.7K#15,889
CI Côte d’Ivoirenomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies—296#1,551
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199172—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198146—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197114—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19518—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19415—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19115—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19014—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19613—

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

In which country does Sanon have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Sanon in Haiti, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sanon.
How common is the name Sanon?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,943 people named Sanon in 2010, about 1 in 113 thousand residents.
How common is Sanon compared with other names?
In Haiti, Sanon is the 102nd most common surname of 1,519 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Sanon” — the 102nd most common surname in Haiti. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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