Sawaneh
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sɑwəni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sawaneh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Gambia than in any other country, where it is the 63rd most common surname.
- GMGambia≈1 in 726(inferred from the name graph)
- SLSierra Leone≈1 in 4.8K
- ESSpain1 in 169K
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)
- Sources
- 66 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 726 (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Gambia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Sawaneh 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 | #63 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 726 | — | Sawaneh | 25 |
| SL Sierra Leone | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | 3 | — | 9 |
| ES Spain | — | 296 | 1 in 169K | 296 | Sawaneh | 23 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 241K | — | Sawaneh | 1 |
| US United States | — | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | listed | Sawaneh | 66 |
| NO Norway | — | 18 | 1 in 304K | 18 | — | 1 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); NEC/ECSL — 2018 Local Council, Chairperson and Mayor nominated candidates. 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 296 | #12,191 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 296 | #12,161 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18 | #44,274 |
| SL Sierra Leone | NEC/ECSL — 2018 Local Council, Chairperson and Mayor nominated candidates | 2018 | 3 | #31 |
| SL Sierra Leone | NEC/ECSL — 2012 Councillor and Ordinary-MP/PCMP results tables | 2012 | 1 | #24 |
| SL Sierra Leone | NEC/ECSL — 2012 parliamentary and Local Council nominated candidates | 2012 | 1 | #24 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- How do you pronounce Sawaneh?
- A machine transcription gives /sɑwəni/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sawaneh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Sawaneh in the Gambia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sawaneh.
- How common is the name Sawaneh?
- In Spain, the national register counted 296 people named Sawaneh, about 1 in 169 thousand residents.
- How common is Sawaneh compared with other names?
- In the Gambia, Sawaneh is the 63rd most common surname of 178 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/sawanehThe 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, “Sawaneh” — the 63rd most common surname in Gambia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.