Sanne
given name · Western Frisian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sanne is a given name, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Western Frisian and Dutch, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: diminutive of Sanson; first attested Eynon son of Sanne 1260 AssCh.
- NLNetherlands1 in 566◐
- BEBelgium1 in 7.6K
- DEGermany1 in 78K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈39K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 123 ●
- 1 in 566 ◐
across 11 countries
recorded for this name
22K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sanoon in PK Pakistan, TH Thailand.
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●
diminutive of Sanson; first attested Eynon son of Sanne 1260 AssCh
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #104 | 30,539△ | 14K rec. | 1 in 566 | 31K | Sanne | 123 |
| DK Denmark | — | 5,780△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 1K | 5.8K | Sanne | 3 |
| BE Belgium | #891 | 2,036 | 1.2K rec. | — | 10 | Sanne | 73 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,565 | 2.4K rec. | — | 1 | Sanne | 74 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 1,491 | 16 rec. | — | — | Sanoon | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,031△ | 153 rec. | 1 in 9.9K | 1K | Sanne | 40 |
| NO Norway | — | 993△ | 74 rec. | 1 in 5.5K | 3.5K | Sanne | 20 |
| AU Australia | — | 430 | 413 rec. | — | 1 | Sanne | 36 |
| IN India | — | 290 | 53 rec. | — | 33 | Sanne | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 273 | 385 rec. | — | listed | Sanne | 36 |
| US United States | — | 203 | 2.7K rec. | 1 in 1.6M | 248 | Sanne | 107 |
| TH Thailand | — | 76 | 44 rec. | — | #174,321 | Sanoon | 9 |
Roughly 31K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 566). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Western Frisian58K30%
- Dutch48K25%
- English37K19%
- Danish25K13%
- German3.8K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Western Frisian | 58,417 | 30% |
| Dutch | 48,393 | 25% |
| English | 37,149 | 19% |
| Danish | 25,460 | 13% |
| German | 3,804 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Sanne 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 German, from SAN; also from an ON near Magdeburg
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Danish, a diminutive of the female given name Susanne
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Sanne är en (framför allt dansk) sidoform till → Sanna. I Danmark var namnet mycket populärt på 1950–70-talet. En känd namnbärare är rocksångerskan Sanne Salomonsen (f. 1955).
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In German, 1. s. SAN. 2. ON. Magdeb. Sann | eT (x Alex- ander), emann Sant-, Sanz: s. SAND Santen, Santner: s. Xanten
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In pi, locative singular masculine/neuter & accusative plural masculine & vocative singular feminine of sanna, which is past participle of sandati (“to flow”)
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.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1973 | 4 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1988 | 4 |
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1991 | 8 |
| 1992 | 13 |
| 1993 | 21 |
| 1994 | 14 |
| 1995 | 20 |
| 1996 | 18 |
| 1997 | 23 |
| 1998 | 42 |
| 1999 | 35 |
| 2000 | 35 |
| 2001 | 40 |
| 2002 | 35 |
| 2003 | 33 |
| 2004 | 42 |
| 2005 | 33 |
| 2006 | 41 |
| 2007 | 44 |
| 2008 | 41 |
| 2009 | 47 |
| 2010 | 42 |
| 2011 | 22 |
| 2012 | 24 |
| 2013 | 32 |
| 2014 | 26 |
| 2015 | 15 |
| 2016 | 24 |
| 2017 | 14 |
| 2018 | 17 |
| 2019 | 15 |
| 2020 | 22 |
| 2021 | 12 |
| 2022 | 14 |
| 2023 | 19 |
| 2024 | 30 |
| 2025 | 34 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 39 years between 1973–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Sanne van Havelteb. 1889NLDutch writer (1889-1968)
- Sanne Wohlenbergb. 1968DEGerman-born television producer
- Sanne Vogelb. 1984NLDutch actress
- Sanne Troelsgaard Nielsenb. 1988DKDanish association football player
- Selah Sueb. 1989BEnot in their usual nameBelgian musician and songwriter
- Sanne Weversb. 1991NLDutch artistic gymnast
- Sanne Verhagenb. 1992NLDutch judoka
- Sanne van Dijkeb. 1995NLDutch judoka (born 1995)
- Sanne Vloetb. 1995NLDutch model
- Sanne Koolenb. 1996NLDutch field hockey player
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●
Attested in 53 sources across 24 countries.
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 394 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sanne?
- We estimate roughly 39 thousand people bear Sanne (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sanne have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 31 thousand people bear Sanne in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled sanne.
- Where is Sanne most common?
- Sanne is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 566 people carrying it.
- How common is Sanne compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Sanne is the 104th most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
- Is Sanne a male or female name?
- Sanne 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 Sanne mean?
- Recorded meaning: diminutive of Sanson; first attested Eynon son of Sanne 1260 AssCh
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Sanne” — the 104th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.