Sánchez (surname)
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Sánchez or Sanchez is a frequently common Spanish surname. As a patronymic
Patronymic
A patronym, or patronymic, is a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father, grandfather or an even earlier male ancestor. A component of a name based on the name of one's mother or a female ancestor is a matronymic. Each is a means of conveying lineage.In many areas patronyms...

, it means "son of Sancho". The name "Sancho" itself comes from the Basque
Basque language
Basque is the ancestral language of the Basque people, who inhabit the Basque Country, a region spanning an area in northeastern Spain and southwestern France. It is spoken by 25.7% of Basques in all territories...

 Santxo.

Popularity

Sanchez is the fifth most common surname in Spain.
Sanchez in Spain, by area
Province Rank
Salamanca 1 most common (12,420 people)
Cáceres 2 most common (5,956 people)
Cádiz 3 most common (19,396 people)
Granada 3 most common (13,268 people)
Toledo 3 most common (6308 people)

Sanchez ranking in other parts of the world
Country Rank
United States ranked 52 out of 88,799
Argentina ranked 10 out of 100
France ranked 52 out of 1,000
Philipines ranked 71 out of 1,000

People

Notable people who share this surname include:
  • Adán Sánchez
    Adán Sánchez
    Adán Santos Sánchez , was a popular American singer.-Biography:Sánchez was born in Torrance, CA. He was the son of singer Chalino Sánchez. He was eight years old when his father was kidnapped and killed in the Mexican state of Sinaloa in 1992...

     (1984–2004), Mexican singer; son of Chalino (see below)
  • Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez
    Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez
    Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez was a Spanish-born Mexican philosopher, writer and professor born in Algeciras, Andalucia....

    , Mexican writer and professor
  • Alex Sanchez, American author
  • Alexis Sánchez
    Alexis Sánchez
    Alexis Alejandro Sánchez Sánchez , is a Chilean footballer who plays as a forward for FC Barcelona and for the Chilean national team. He is well known for his excellent dribbling ability, great speed and his unusual strength for a fast winger....

    , Chilean football (soccer) player
  • Alicia Sánchez-Camacho
    Alicia Sánchez-Camacho
    Alicia Sánchez-Camacho Pérez is a Spanish lawyer and politician. She has served as the President of the People's Party in Catalonia since 6 July 2008....

    , Spanish politician
  • Alonso Sánchez de Cepeda - father of Saint Teresa of Ávila, and son of Juan Sánchez (a new christian)
  • Ángel Sánchez (referee), Argentinian football (soccer) referee
  • Angélica Sánchez
    Angélica Sánchez
    Angélica Sánchez Cautelán is a female long-distance runner from Mexico. She represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where she finished in 46th place in the women's marathon event, clocking 2:49.04...

    , Mexican long-distance runner
  • Aníbal Sánchez
    Aníbal Sánchez
    Aníbal Alejandro Sánchez, Jr. [a-NEE-bal] is a Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher with the Miami Marlins. He is listed as 6 feet tall and 180 pounds...

    , baseball player
  • Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
    Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
    Aránzazu 'Arantxa' Isabel Maria Sánchez Vicario is a Spanish former professional tennis player...

     (born 1972), Spanish tennis player; sister of fellow tennis players Emilio and Javier (see below)
  • Arman Sanchez
    Arman Sanchez
    Armando Sanchez was a Filipino politician. He is a former two-term mayor of Sto. Tomas, Batangas and one-term Governor of the Province of Batangas...

    , Filipino politician, former Governor of the province of Batangas
  • Bertha Sánchez
    Bertha Sánchez
    Bertha Oliva Sánchez Rivera is a female long-distance runner from Colombia, who won several medals on continental level from the mid-1990s on. She has won twice at the South American Cross Country Championships; first winning the long race in 2000, then winning the short race competition in...

    , Colombian long-distance runner
  • Chalino Sánchez
    Chalino Sánchez
    Rosalino "Chalino" Sánchez was a Mexican singer and songwriter.-Early life:Born and raised in a poor family on a ranch called "Las Flechas", Badiraguato, Sinaloa, Mexico. His father was Santos Sánchez and his mother Sannorina Felix. He had seven siblings: Armando, Lázaro, Régulo, Lucas,...

     (1960–1992), Mexican singer and songwriter
  • Christophe Sanchez
    Christophe Sanchez
    Christophe Sanchez is a former French football player.-References:**...

    , French football player
  • Claudio Sanchez
    Claudio Sanchez
    Claudio Paul Sanchez is an American writer and musician best known for being the lead singer and guitarist for the alternative/progressive rock group Coheed and Cambria. He is also the creator of the comic book series, The Amory Wars and Kill Audio, co-written with wife Chondra Echert...

    , singer and guitarist of Coheed and Cambria
  • Claudio Suárez Sánchez
    Claudio Suárez
    Luis Claudio Suárez Sánchez is a retired Mexican footballer. He last played for Chivas USA in Major League Soccer....

    , Mexican former footballer
  • Daniel Sanchez
    Daniel Sanchez (French footballer)
    Daniel Sanchez is a French former football striker currently managing Ligue 1 team Valenciennes.-References:* *...

    , French former football striker
  • Daniel Sánchez (billiards player)
  • Davis Sanchez
    Davis Sanchez
    Davis Sanchez is a former National Football League and current Canadian Football League cornerback for the B.C. Lions.-Early years:...

    , NFL and CFL football player
  • Diego Sanchez
    Diego Sánchez
    Diego J. Sanchez is an American mixed martial artist of Mexican descent, with a background in wrestling and Gaidojutsu, system of submission wrestling developed by his longtime trainer Greg Jackson...

    , UFC fighter
  • Emilio Sánchez
    Emilio Sánchez
    Emilio Ángel Sánchez Vicario is a former professional tennis player from Spain. He won three Grand Slam doubles titles and the men's doubles silver medal at the 1988 Olympic Games...

     (born 1965), Spanish tennis player
  • Encarna Sánchez
    Encarna Sánchez
    Encarna Sánchez was an influential Spanish talk radio host and current events commentator. Generally viewed as a conservative, her views were of great influence on working, middle classes and ruling Governments in Spain at that time...

    , Spanish television show host
  • Eustorgio Sánchez
    Eustorgio Sánchez
    Eustorgio Sánchez is a retired Venezuelan football goalkeeper. He competed for his native South American country at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union, where the Men's National Team was eliminated after the preliminary round. Sánchez played for Deportivo Italia.-References:...

    , Venezuelan footballer
  • Francisco Sanchez (politician), Eighth Alcade of San Francisco
  • Francisco del Rosario Sánchez
    Francisco del Rosario Sánchez
    Francisco Del Rosario Sánchez was a politician and founding father of the Dominican Republic. He is considered by Dominicans as the second leader of the 1844 Dominican War of Independence, after Juan Pablo Duarte and before Ramón Matías Mella. The Order of Merit of Duarte, Sanchez and Mella is...

    , founding father of the Dominican Republic
  • Freddy Sanchez
    Freddy Sanchez
    Frederick Phillip "Freddy" Sanchez, Jr. is a Major League Baseball second baseman for the San Francisco Giants. Sanchez has previously played for the Boston Red Sox and the Pittsburgh Pirates and the San Francisco Giants...

    , professional baseball player
  • German Sanchez Delfin, tennis player
  • Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
    Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
    Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada y Sánchez de Bustamante , familiarly known as "Goni", is a Bolivian politician, businessman, and former President of Bolivia. A lifelong member of the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario , he is credited for using "shock therapy", the economic theory championed by then...

    , Bolivian president
  • Hugo Sánchez
    Hugo Sánchez
    Hugo Sánchez Márquez , popularly nicknamed Pentapichichi, or Hugol, is a Mexican football coach and former striker. He played for four European clubs, including Real Madrid. Sanchez is considered the first highly talented Mexican player. He was also a member of the Mexico national team, and...

    , Mexican soccer player
  • Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as Carlos the Jackal, a Venezuelan terrorist
  • Javier Sánchez
    Javier Sánchez
    Javier Sánchez Vicario is a former professional tennis player from Spain.Sánchez won the US Open junior title in 1986, and then turned professional. He won his first professional doubles titles in 1987. His first top-level singles title came in 1988 at Buenos Aires. During his career he won a...

     (born 1968), Spanish tennis player
  • Jonathan Sánchez
    Jonathan Sanchez
    Jonathan O. Sánchez is a Puerto Rican Major League Baseball left-handed starting pitcher for the Kansas City Royals....

    , professional baseball player
  • Jorge Noceda Sanchez
    Jorge Noceda Sanchez
    Jorge Noceda Sanchez was a painter whose works are collected by museums throughout the world. A native of the Dominican Republic, he received his medical degree from the University of Santo Domingo, D.R. in 1952. Upon graduation he moved to New York to specialize in gastroenterology at New York...

    , a Dominican surrealist painter
  • José Antonio Sánchez-de Luna
    José Antonio Sánchez-de Luna
    José Antonio Sánchez De Luna is a Spanish professional tennis player.-Titles :-External links:*...

    , another Spaniard tennis player
  • Jose Tomas Sanchez, Filipino Prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Clergy, Roman Curia.
  • Julio Sánchez Cristo
    Julio Sanchez Cristo
    Julio Sánchez Cristo is a Colombian radio personality, born 9 January 1959 in Bogotá. He is best known for his morning news, radioshow and variety show La W, in the Spanish-owned broadcasting station W Radio...

    , a Colombian radio personality
  • Korina Sanchez
    Korina Sanchez
    Korina Maria Sanchez-Roxas is a Filipina broadcast journalist, TV host and commercial endorser.-Early life:Korina Sanchez was born on October 5, 1964 in Hong Kong. Her father, Ramon P. Sanchez, Sr. , was the General Manager of then Hong Kong landmark, Ambassador Hotel. She is the only girl of Ramon...

    , a Filipino news anchor and host
  • Laura Sánchez (diver), Mexican diver
  • Lawrie Sanchez
    Lawrie Sanchez
    Lawrence Philip "Lawrie" Sanchez is a former Northern Irish football manager, and a former player. He is currently the manager of League Two side Barnet...

    , British soccer player, now a manager
  • Linda Sánchez
    Linda Sánchez
    Linda T. Sánchez is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2003. She is a member of the Democratic Party.-Early life, education and career:...

    , American member of Congress
  • Lucia Sanchez
    Lucia Sanchez
    Lucia Sanchez is a French actress. She was born in Spain in 1969. She started her acting career in 1996 with Une robe d'été directed by François Ozon....

    , French actress
  • Luis Rafael Sánchez
    Luis Rafael Sanchez
    Dr. Luis Rafael Sánchez a.k.a. "Wico" is a Puerto Rican playwright. Possibly his best known play is La Pasión según Antigona Pérez , a tragedy based on the life of Olga Viscal Garriga-Early years:...

    , Puerto Rican playwright and author
  • Loretta Sanchez
    Loretta Sanchez
    Loretta Sanchez is the U.S. Representative for , and previously the 46th, serving since 2003. She is a member of the Democratic Party, and a member of the Blue Dog Coalition. The district lies in central Orange County....

    , American member of Congress
  • Magdalena Sánchez
    Magdalena Sánchez
    Magdalena Sánchez, was a Venezuelan singer, better known like the Queen of the Venezuelan song.- Early career :...

    , Venezuelan singer
  • Manuel Sanchez
    Manuel Sanchez
    Manuel Anthony Sanchez was the guitarist for the Kansas City-based post-hardcore band, Flee the Seen. Manuel is a 2000 graduate of Lafayette High School in St. Joseph, MO, and currently resides in Kansas City, MO.- References :...

    , Mexican tennis player
  • María José Martínez Sánchez
    María José Martínez Sánchez
    María José Martínez Sánchez is a Spanish professional tennis player. In singles, she has won five WTA singles titles, the 2009 Copa Sony Ericsson Colsanitas, the 2009 Swedish Open, the Premier 5 event, 2010 Internazionali BNL d'Italia, the 2011 Gastein Ladies and the 2011 Hansol Korea Open. She...

    , Vicario's Spainard compatriot and tennis player
  • María Sánchez Lorenzo
    María Sánchez Lorenzo
    María Antonia Sánchez Lorenzo is a retired Spanish professional tennis player.Her highest WTA ranking has been World No...

    , José Martínez's Spaniard compatriot and former tennis player
  • Marissa Sanchez, Filipino actress
  • Mark Sanchez
    Mark Sanchez
    Mark Travis John Sanchez is an American football quarterback for the New York Jets of the National Football League . He was drafted in the first round of the 2009 NFL Draft as the fifth overall selection by the Jets and the second quarterback taken overall...

    , American football player
  • Marta Sánchez
    Marta Sánchez
    Marta Sánchez López is a Spanish female vocalist. She was born on 8 May 1966 in Madrid. Her father, Antonio Sánchez Camporro, was a Galician opera singer.- Biography :...

    , Spanish female vocalist
  • Matt Sanchez
    Matt Sanchez
    Matt Sanchez served as a Marine reservist.In March 2007, Sanchez was awarded the first "Jeane Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award" at the Conservative Political Action Conference....

    , American soldier, political activist, writer and former pornographic actor
  • Michael Sánchez, Cuban volleyball player
  • Mike Sanchez
    Mike Sanchez
    Jesus Miguel "Mike" Sanchez is a rhythm and blues singer, pianist and songwriter of Spanish-English heritage. Sanchez is known for his work with the Big Town Playboys and Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings, and also for his solo career...

    , English Rhythm and Blues pianist/vocalist
  • Nicolás Almagro Sanchez Rolle
    Nicolás Almagro
    Nicolas Almagro Sanchez Rolle is a professional Spanish tennis player, ranked 10 on the ATP World Tour.-2005:...

     (born 1985), Spain tennis player
  • Olivia Sanchez
    Olivia Sanchez
    Olivia Sanchez is a professional tennis player from France. She received a wildcard into the main draw of the 2007 French Open, but lost in 6–3, 4–6, 3–6, to Shenay Perry in the first round. As of June 9, 2008, Sanchez reached her highest singles ranking of World Number 90 on June 9, 2008, and is...

    , French tennis player
  • Onésimo Sánchez
    Onésimo Sánchez
    Onésimo Sánchez González , simply known as Onésimo, is a retired Spanish footballer who played mainly as a winger, and a current coach....

    , Spanish football player and manager
  • Óscar Arias Sánchez, Costa Rican president (1986–1990, 2006–2010), Nobel Peace Prize
  • Oscar Enrique Sánchez
    Óscar Enrique Sánchez
    Oscar Enrique Sánchez Rivas , popularly known as El Conejo is a Guatemalan football coach and former inside forward, who played the majority of his career for the club CSD Comunicaciones, and represented the Guatemala national football team at the Olympic Games and in three FIFA World Cup...

    , Guatemalan soccer player
  • Oswaldo Sánchez
    Oswaldo Sánchez
    Oswaldo Javier Sánchez Ibarra is a Mexican footballer. He plays as a goalkeeper for Santos Laguna in the Mexican Primera Division, where he is also the team captain. He has 99 caps for Mexico.-Early career:...

    , Mexican soccer player
  • Pénelope Cruz Sánchez
    Penélope Cruz
    Penélope Cruz Sánchez is a Spanish actress. Signed by an agent at age 15, she made her acting debut at 16 on television and her feature film debut the following year in Jamón, jamón , to critical acclaim...

    , Spanish actress
  • Philippe Sanchez
    Philippe Sanchez
    Philippe Sanchez is a former French cross country skier who competed from as a senior competitor 1992 to 1998. Competing in three Winter Olympics, his best overall finish was eighth in the 4 x 10 km relay at Albertville in 1992 while his best individual finish was 29th in the 10 km +...

    , French cross country skier
  • Pepe Sánchez
    Juan Ignacio Sánchez
    Juan Ignacio Sánchez Brown, also known as Pepe Sánchez , is an Argentine professional basketball player. He is a point guard. He was part of Argentina's 2004 Olympic gold medal team. Pepe Sánchez was the first Argentine to play in the NBA...

     (born 1977), Argentine professional basketball player
  • Ricardo Sánchez
    Ricardo Sánchez (water polo)
    Ricardo Sánchez Alarcón is a former water polo player from Spain, who was a member of the national team that won the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.-References:*...

    , Spanish water polo player
  • Roberto Sánchez Vilella
    Roberto Sánchez Vilella
    Roberto Sánchez Vilella was the second Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from 1965 to 1969. He was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico...

    , the second Governor of Puerto Rico
  • Rómulo Sánchez
    Rómulo Sánchez
    Rómulo Ignacio Sánchez Oviedo is a professional baseball relief pitcher for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Nippon Professional Baseball. He has also pitched in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Yankees...

    , professional baseball player
  • Rosario Sánchez
    Rosario Sánchez
    María del Rosario Sánchez Guerrero is a female track and field athlete from Mexico, who competed in race walking. She represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece....

    , Mexican race walker
  • Roselyn Sánchez
    Roselyn Sanchez
    Roselyn Sánchez is a Puerto Rican singer-songwriter, model, actress, producer and writer of film and television.-Early life:...

    , Puerto Rican singer, model and actress.
  • Ricardo Sanchez
    Ricardo Sanchez
    Ricardo Sanchez is a retired United States Army Lieutenant General and a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for the Senate election in 2012 for the seat of retiring Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison.-Early life and education:...

     (born 1953), retired American Army Lieutenant General
  • Ricardo Sanchez (footballer)
    Ricardo Sánchez (footballer)
    Ricardo Sánchez is a Mexican footballer currently playing for FC Tampa Bay in the USSF Division 2 Professional League.-Club:...

    , Mexican footballer
  • Rick Sanchez
    Rick Sanchez
    Ricardo León "Rick" Sánchez de Reinaldo , known professionally as Rick Sanchez, is a Cuban-American journalist, author and former TV news anchor...

    , Cuban-American TV news anchor
  • Samuel Sánchez
    Samuel Sánchez
    Samuel Sánchez González is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer. He was the gold medal winner in the 2008 Beijing Olympics Men's Road Race. In recent years Sánchez has proven himself in hilly classics and stage races as one of the most important riders in the peloton...

    , Spanish road bicycle racer
  • Sanchez, reggae singer
  • Sergio G. Sánchez
    Sergio G. Sánchez
    Sergio G. Sánchez is a Spanish director and screenwriter.Sánchez has written and directed his own screenplays for short films such as Temporada baja and 7337 ....

    , Spanish director and screenwriter
  • Sylvia Sanchez, Filipino actress
  • Víctor Sánchez
    Victor Sanchez
    Victor Sanchez is a Mexican author. He was initially inspired by the writings of Carlos Castaneda and by his own studies among the Wirrarika, said to be cultural descendants of the Pre-Columbian Native American Toltecs....

    , Spanish soccer player
  • Wellington Sánchez
    Wellington Sánchez
    Wellington Eduardo Sánchez Luzuriaga is an Ecuadorian football midfielder currently playing for Independiente José Terán.He played for a few clubs, including Nacional Quito, MetroStars...

    , Ecuadorian football (soccer) player
  • Yadier Sánchez
    Yadier Sanchez
    Yadier Sánchez Sierra is a volleyball player from Cuba, who plays in different positions. He twice won a bronze medal with the Men's National Team in 2007.-Individual awards:* 2007 Pan-American Cup "Best Spiker"...

     (born 1987), Cuban volleyball player
  • Fabiola Onelis Sanchez (born 1995), Puertorican artist
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