Sonda

loc · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sonda is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil. Recorded meaning: de axungia/axungia latina (banha, gordura de suíno), indicando produtor ou mercador de banha; outra hipótese liga a summitas.

Brazil (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
164 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

6 other spellings are 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(measured from records)

recorded in Portuguese

de axungia/axungia latina (banha, gordura de suíno), indicando produtor ou mercador de banha; outra hipótese liga a summitas.

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sonda counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Sonda is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—1.2K—3
US United States—625—164
AR Argentina—329—1
MX Mexico—57—3
PL Poland—27——

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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)

Sonda is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil

    Also written Sönda, Sondà

  • Hindi name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Sōndā

  • Polish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Sońda, Šonda, Soňďa

50 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)

Sonda is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Portuguese, probe, catheter

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

  • In Serbo-Croatian, a probe (a device, or part of a device, used to explore, investigate or measure)

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

  • In Czech, probe (a device, or part of a device, used to explore, investigate or measure)

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

  • In French, third-person singular past historic of sonder

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

  • In Portuguese, probe (device or craft used for exploration)

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Sonda
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.2K#7,788
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—329—
MX MexicoRENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset)—57#2,498
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202611—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—11#129,965
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20269—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—9#147,329
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

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 Sonda mean?
Recorded meaning: de axungia/axungia latina (banha, gordura de suíno), indicando produtor ou mercador de banha; outra hipótese liga a summitas.
In which country does Sonda have the most bearers?
Sonda is most frequently recorded in Brazil.

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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, “Sonda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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