The Sanches surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 7,883 people carried this name — #4,500 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 37,500 people counted. That is up 6% from 7,457 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Sanches surname
A surname originating as a patronymic.
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Sanchez. By surface analysis, Sancho + -ez.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Sanches» (Portuguese), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 1,799 people named Sanches live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
300 people named Sanches live in Switzerland.
They live in 12 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 165 people named Sanches.
Most of them — 115 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 25 départements, most often Ariège.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In print
Sanches in American newspapers,
1912–1943.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 15,639 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Sanches,
with a public archive behind them.
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Alfonso Sanches 1289–1329 · poet -
Francisco Sanches 1550–1623 · physician -
António Nunes Ribeiro Sanches 1699–1783 · physician -
Edgar Ribeiro Sanches 1891–1972 · lawyer -
Simon Sanches 1915–2002 · resistance fighter
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 64 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Sanches.
- Samyn 167 · U.S. census
- San 2,732 · U.S. census
- Sana 596 · U.S. census
- Sananikone 369 · U.S. census
- Sance 138 · U.S. census
- Sanche 184 · U.S. census
- Sanchez 612,752 · U.S. census
- Sancho 1,186 · U.S. census
- Sand 4,810 · U.S. census
- Sander 9,090 · U.S. census
- Sanders 230,374 · U.S. census
- Sandler 4,583 · U.S. census
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