Sanyang
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sanyang is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Gambia than in any other country, where it is the 15th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
- GMGambia≈1 in 238
- SESweden1 in 53K
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.
- Gambia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 238 (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Gambia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sanyang 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GM Gambia | #15 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 238 | 4 | Sanyang | 63 |
| ES Spain | — | 311 | 1 in 161K | 311 | Sanyang | 12 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 286K | — | Sanyang | 7 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Sanyang | 25 |
| US United States | — | 201 | 1 in 1.7M | 390 | Sanyang | 89 |
| SE Sweden | — | 193 | 1 in 53K | 193 | Sanyang | 13 |
| NO Norway | — | 102 | 1 in 54K | 102 | Sanyang | 6 |
| FI Finland | — | 74 | 1 in 75K | 74 | Sanyang | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 46 | 1 in 128K | 46 | — | — |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IEC — Nominated Candidates National Assembly Elections 2022; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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)
- Bakary Sanyangb. 1950GMGambian politician
- Amadou Sanyangb. 1991GMGambian footballer
- Alagie Sanyangb. 1996GMSwedish association football player
- Abdoulaye Sanyangb. 2000GMGambian politician
- Youssoupha Sanyangb. 2005SNSenegal and Gambian association football player
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 22 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 390 | #56,551 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 311 | #11,739 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 311 | #11,707 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 201 | #91,625 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 193 | #4,284 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 102 | #15,098 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 74 | #16,275 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 46 | #11,475 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 34 | — |
| GM Gambia | IEC — Nominated Candidates National Assembly Elections 2022 | 2022 | 4 | #8 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- In which country does Sanyang have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.1 thousand people named Sanyang in the Gambia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sanyang.
- How common is the name Sanyang?
- In Spain, the national register counted 311 people named Sanyang, about 1 in 161 thousand residents.
- How common is Sanyang compared with other names?
- In the Gambia, Sanyang is the 15th most common surname of 178 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sanyang?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sanyangThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Sanyang” — the 15th most common surname in Gambia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.