Sensi

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Clipping of sensimilla

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: St Kitts & Nevis, 2026

/ˈsɛnsiː/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary

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

  • KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 54K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 311K
  • BRBrazil1 in 569K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

372 people

Record sources
76 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)

St. Kitts & Nevis

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Clipping of sensimilla.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Sensi is found

(measured from records)

Sensi 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 Sensi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil3721 in 569K372——
AR Argentina631 in 722K63——
CH Switzerland271 in 311K27—4
BE Belgium171 in 689K17Sensi5
ES Spain151 in 3.3M15Sensi1
KN St. Kitts & Nevis11 in 54K1——

372 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)

Sensi is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Italy, Belgium, United States

    Also written Sensî

45 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)

Sensi is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Indonesian, clipping of sensitif (“sensitive”)

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

  • In srn, cent (a subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency, such as the former Surinamese guilder and the current Surinamese dollar)

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

  • In Latin, first-person singular perfect active indicative of sentiō

    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)
19201940196019802000Franco Sensi, b. 1926Rosella Sensi, b. 1971Stefano Sensi, b. 1995

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).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Sensi mean, and where does it come from?
Clipping of sensimilla. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Sensi?
It depends on the language: in English /ˈsɛnsiː/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /sensi/; in Italian /sensi/; in Portuguese /sẽsi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Sensi?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 372 people named Sensi, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Argentina, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Sensi most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sensi is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 54 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sensi?
In Brazil, the national register counted 372 people named Sensi, about 1 in 569 thousand residents.

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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, “Sensi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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