Sanusi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: relating to Sanusi order; historical reference
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sanusi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 186K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 638K
- USUnited States1 in 993K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- 1 in 186K (inferred from the name graph)
335 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
relating to Sanusi order; historical reference
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sanusi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 335 | 1 in 993K | 514 | Sanusi | 123 |
| FI Finland | — | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 17 | 1 in 2.9M | 17 | — | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 16 | 1 in 638K | 16 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 10 | 1 in 3.8M | 7 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 9 | 1 in 1.9M | 9 | — | 5 |
| BE Belgium | — | 4 | 1 in 2.9M | 4 | — | 3 |
| ID Indonesia | #315 | — | — | listed | Sanusi | 144 |
335 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Sanusi 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 English, Alternative form of Senussi.
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)
- Muhammad ibn Yusuf al‐Sanusib. 1428DZIslamic theologian and author in 8th century Hijri
- Anthony Saliu Sanusib. 1911NGCatholic bishop (1911-2009)
- Hassan Sanusib. 1918IDIndonesian actor, lawyer, and writer (1918–1988)
- Ryan Sanusib. 1992BEBelgian footballer
- Zaidu Sanusib. 1997NGNigerian association football player
- Abidemi SanusiNGNigerian author
- Mohammed Sanusi YusufNGResearcher, medical doctor
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 23 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 514 | #44,906 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 335 | #60,196 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 210 | #83,301 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #37,914 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 17 | #91,572 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16 | #29,373 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 9 | #66,538 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #170,383 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4 | #115,265 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #286,882 |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Sanusi mean, and where does it come from?
- relating to Sanusi order; historical reference Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- In which country does Sanusi have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 335 people named Sanusi, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sanusi.
- Where is Sanusi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sanusi is densest in Finland — about 1 in 186 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sanusi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 335 people named Sanusi in 2010, about 1 in 993 thousand residents.
- How common is Sanusi compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Sanusi is the 315th most common surname of 451,395 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sanusi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sanusiThe 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, “Sanusi” — the 315th most common surname in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.