Sánchez

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The most common family names in Spain

Sánchez is a patronymic educated Spanish surname . Outside the Spanish-speaking area, it also occurs in the Sanchez spelling without acute . The Portuguese form of the name is Sanches .

Origin and meaning

Sánchez is derived from the medieval Spanish first name Sancho , which probably originates from Roman times and goes back to the name of the god Sancus . The -ez at the end of the name is probably of Basque origin and means "son of ..." in Spanish surnames . Common medieval spellings and variants of the surname formed from Sancho are Sanchiz , Sanziz , Sanxiz , but also ( Latin ) Sanctii , Sancii , Sanccii or Sancioni .

distribution

In Spain , Sánchez is the seventh most common surname; approx. 817,000 residents have it in their compound surname in the first place. He can also be found very often in Latin America . In the Mexican agglomeration of Monterrey , the name was in fifth position of the most common surnames in the 1990s, but just misses the list of the five most common Mexican surnames at the national level, that of Hernández (more than 3.5 million father's and 2.6 million Mother names) and García (more than 2.5 million father names). In the United States , the name is the 26th most common family name and the 8th most popular Hispanic surname with approximately 613,000 people, of whom about 93% identify as Hispanics .

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See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sancho in Heráldica Valenciana. Instituto de Historia y Heráldica Familiar, in: Levante-EMV , accessed November 2019 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ a b Emilio Sánchez Hidalgo: Los apellidos que significan "hijo de" en Europe. In: El País , July 17, 2018, accessed November 1, 2019 (Spanish).
  3. ^ Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo: Antroponimia medieval galega (see VIII – XII). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-484-55512-2 , p. 268; 405 f .; 468 (Galegic, limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ Raúl Garza Chapa, María de los Ángeles Rojas-Alvarado, Ricardo M. Cerda Flores: Endogamia en las personas con apellidos mono y polifiléticos de Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, estimado con base en el directorio telefónico. In: Estudios de Antropología Biológica ( UNAM ), Vol. 5 (1995), pp. 243-255 (here: pp. 245 f.) (Online) .
  5. ↑ ¿Cuáles son los apellidos más comunes en México? The INE lo revela en su padrón. In: Xataka , February 16, 2018, accessed November 17, 2019 (Spanish).
  6. ↑ Los apellidos hispanos más populares en los Estados Unidos (EEUU). In: Mongabay , accessed November 2019 (data based on the United States Census 2010 ).