SanZ
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
SanZ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 42nd most common surname.
- ESSpain1 in 562(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 3.1K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 3.8K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 252 (measured from records)
- 1 in 562 (inferred from the name graph)
88,939 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
SanZ 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #42 | 88,939 | 1 in 562 | 89K | SanZ | 232 |
| VE Venezuela | #509 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | SanZ | 52 |
| AR Argentina | #630 | 5,787 | 1 in 7.9K | 5.8K | SanZ | 92 |
| FR France | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 368 | SanZ | 235 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 2 | SanZ | 75 |
| UY Uruguay | #441 | 1,088 | 1 in 3.1K | 1.1K | SanZ | 36 |
| AD Andorra | #124 | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | SanZ | 11 |
88,939 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos), counting the spelling sanz. 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); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
SanZ 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 fro, without
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)
- Gaspar Sanz Celmab. 1640ESSpanish guitarist and composer
- Lorenzo Sanz Mancebob. 1943ESSpanish businessman (1943–2020)
- María Teresa Fernández de la Vegab. 1949ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician
- Margarita Sanzb. 1954MXMexican actress
- José Luis Gilb. 1957ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actor
- Alejandro Sanzb. 1968ESSpanish pop musician (born 1968)
- Horatio Sanzb. 1969USAmerican actor and comedian
- Jorge Sanzb. 1969ESSpanish actor
- Luis Garcíab. 1978ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
- Fernando Torresb. 1984ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer and manager (born 1984)
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 30 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 89K | #43 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 89K | #43 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 5.8K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 556 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 410 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 368 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 353 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 351 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 339 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 224 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 197 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 SanZ have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 89 thousand people named SanZ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled SanZ.
- Where is SanZ most common?
- SanZ is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 562 people carrying it.
- How common is the name SanZ?
- In Spain, the national register counted 88,939 people named SanZ, about 1 in 562 residents.
- How common is SanZ compared with other names?
- In Spain, SanZ is the 42nd most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sanzThe same 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), 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, “SanZ” — the 42nd most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.