Sando
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Sandwich
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/sando/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Sando is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 110Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador≈1 in 120K
- FIFinland1 in 186K
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 Sando itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 60K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sandø in NO Norway, DK Denmark and Sandoe in JM Jamaica.
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.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sando 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Sando | 11 |
| US United States | 968 | 1 in 344K | 1.1K | Sando | 221 |
| NO Norway | 682as Sandø | 1 in 8K | 682 | Sandø | 8 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 190K | — | Sando | 8 |
| BR Brazil | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 720K | 140 | — | 3 |
| AU Australia | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 109K | 1 | Sando | 84 |
| DK Denmark | 70as Sandø | 1 in 84K | 70 | Sandø | 17 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Sandoe | 3 |
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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Sando 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, männl. Vom., bulgarische Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Basque, (V-arr). Ref.: A Apend ; EAEL 142. "Cesto pequeño" A Apend . Cf. zaran .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
In bik, sleeveless undershirt; tank top; wifebeater; singlet; vest
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, first-person singular present indicative of sandar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In klw, shaman
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)- Frank Sandob. 1931GBBritish long-distance runner (1931–2012)
- Bjørn Gunnar Sandob. 1959NONorwegian musician
- Carl Erik Sandob. 1962NONorwegian speed skater
- Stein Olaf Sandob. 1968NONorwegian handball player
- Esther Sandob. 1981ZMjudoka
- Ryota Sandob. 1988JPJapanese badminton player
- Emily Stang Sandob. 1989NONorwegian handball player
- Mie Sophie Sandob. 1993NONorwegian handball player
- Nicholas Sandofilm producer
- John Petter SandoNONorwegian handball 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)39 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sando mean, and where does it come from?
- Sandwich. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sando?
- In Spanish /sando/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Sando have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Sando in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sando.
- How common is the name Sando?
- In the United States, the national register counted 968 people named Sando in 2010, about 1 in 344 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sando?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sandoThe 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, “Sando”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.