Šando

surname · Latin script

Šando is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Clipping of sandwich + -o (“colloquial”).

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 26K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 186K
  • USUnited States1 in 344K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

968 people, 2010

Sources
6 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is 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)

Clipping of sandwich + -o (“colloquial”)

Sources 2

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Šando 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 Šando is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States9681 in 344K1.1K—1
NO Norway2081 in 26K208——
FI Finland301 in 186K30——
IN India141 in 95M14——
SE Sweden131 in 785K13——
CH Switzerland71 in 1.2M7——

968 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)

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

  • Croatian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria

    Languages: Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian

    Also written Sando, Сандо, Sandó, Şando

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Šando under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Šando mean, and where does it come from?
Clipping of sandwich + -o (“colloquial”) Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary.
In which country does Šando have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 968 people named Šando, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Šando most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Šando is densest in Norway — about 1 in 26 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Šando?
In the United States, the national register counted 968 people named Šando in 2010, about 1 in 344 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, “Šando”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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