Sanga
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Sandwich
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sanɡa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sanga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 95as Singh(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2.8Kas Singh
- TZTanzania≈1 in 305
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sanga itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 305 (inferred from the name graph)
13,918,756 named Singh
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sing in IN India, US United States, ES Spain.
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)
Sandwich.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sanga 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #277 | 13,918,756as Singh | 1 in 95 | 14M | Sing | 136 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 305 | 3 | Sanga | 21 |
| US United States | — | 116,749as Singh | 1 in 2.8K | 164K | Sing | 122 |
| ES Spain | — | 26,813as Singh | 1 in 1.9K | 27K | Sing | 19 |
| GY Guyana | — | 19,357as Singh | 1 in 39 | 19K | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 4,150as Singh | 1 in 1.3K | 4.2K | — | 7 |
13,918,756 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls, counting the spelling singh. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Sanga 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.
He came from the valley
as a nameThe book of African names
In lua, vt. and vi., to assemble, collect, put together, gather together, mingle, mix together, intermingle, combine, unite.
as a wordGrammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language
In men, Black-and-white kingfisher (? CeryJe maxima)
as a wordMende Natural History Vocabulary
In kaw, alternative spelling of saṅa (“nine”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, A Roman cognomen — famously held by
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)
- Inácio Sangab. 1631Macao-born Jesuit missionary
- Deo Sangab. 1956TZTanzanian Member of Parliament
- Takuya Sangab. 1961JPJapanese sportswriter (1961-)
- Giovanni Sangab. 1962ITItalian politician
- Philip Sangab. 1983KEKenyan long-distance runner
- Nomvula Sangab. 1988SZSwaziland female football player
- Magalie Gauze-Sangab. 1990CMCameroonian entrepreneur
- Enzo Sangab. 1995FRFrench rugby union 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 6.9K | #1,246 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 952 | #4,039 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 435 | #51,662 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 262 | #73,911 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 135 | #118,954 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 30 | #63,067 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 30 | #62,916 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sanga mean, and where does it come from?
- Sandwich. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sanga?
- A machine transcription gives /sanɡa/ (IPA) for Swahili.
- In which country does Sanga have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 14 million people named Singh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sanga?
- In India, the national register counted 13,918,756 people named Singh, about 1 in 95 residents.
- How common is Sanga compared with other names?
- In India, Sanga is the 277th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sangaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Sanga” — the 277th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.