Sanela

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Санела in MK North Macedonia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Sanela is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name3.2K records spelled Sanela7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Serbia, Spain

  Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Sanéla, Șanela, Sânela

• Russian given name71 records spelled Sanela5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, United States

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Санела, Санэла

40 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.

Over time●

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 47 years between 1972–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Sanela Redžepagićb. 1971BABosnian opera singer
• Sanela Diana Jenkinsb. 1973BABosnian entrepreneur and philanthropist
• Sanela Sijerčićb. 1976BABosnian singer
• Sanel Kuljićb. 1977ATnot in their usual nameassociation football player
• Sanela Knezovićb. 1979HRCroatian handball player
• Sanel Ibrahimovićb. 1987BAnot in their usual nameBosnian association football player
• Sanel Kapidžićb. 1990BAnot in their usual nameDanish footballer (born 1990)
• Sanel Šaljićb. 2005ATnot in their usual nameAustrian footballer (born 2007)
• Sanel Kasibovicnot in their usual nameactor
• Sanela BanovićSIresearcher

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 181 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sanela?

We estimate roughly 5.7 thousand people bear Sanela (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Sanela have the most bearers?

We estimate about 2.3 thousand people bear Sanela in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled sanela.

How common is Sanela compared with other names?

In Croatia, Sanela is the 348th most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.

Is Sanela a male or female name?

Sanela is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Sanela mean?

Recorded meaning: Sanela kan vara en bildning till latinets sanus (fem.