Senda
surname · Latin script
Meaning: footpath
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈsenda/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Senda is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 183K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
- BRBrazil1 in 1.6M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- 1 in 183K (inferred from the name graph)
258 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)footpath
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Senda is found
(measured from records)Senda 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 258 | 1 in 1.3M | 288 | Senda | 103 |
| PL Poland | 209 | 1 in 183K | 105 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 134 | 1 in 1.6M | 134 | — | 2 |
| IN India | 8 | 1 in 166M | 8 | Senda | 4 |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 163 | — | 4 |
258 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 2000; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)Senda 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.
Kilmė ne visai aiški. Plg. (?) vok. Send (J. Brechenmacher, 1963, p. 602) ir Sanda (žr.)
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, to send (make something go somewhere)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romansh, path, footpath
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In umb, difficult
as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language
In Lithuanian, Kilmė ne visai aiški. Plg. (7) vok. Send (J. Brechenmacher, 1963, p. 602) ir Sandė (žr.).
as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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)- Sadasue Sendab. 1892JPJapanese military personnel
- Koreya Sendab. 1904JPJapanese director, actor, member of the German Communist Party (1904-1994)
- Mitsuru Sendab. 1941JPJapanese architect
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)33 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Senda mean, and where does it come from?
- footpath Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Senda?
- In Spanish /ˈsenda/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Senda?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 258 people named Senda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled senda. After it come Poland, Brazil, India and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Senda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Senda is densest in Poland — about 1 in 183 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Senda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 258 people named Senda in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Senda?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sendaThe 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, “Senda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.