The name Sancho is an Iberian name of Basque origin (Santxo, Santzo, Santso, Antzo, Sans).[1] Sancho stems from the Latin name Sanctius.[2] The feminine form is Sancha and the common patronymic is Sánchez.
Outside the Spanish-speaking world, the name is especially associated with the literary character Sancho Panza.
- Sancho I
- Sancho II
- Sancho III
- Sancho IV
- Sancho V (also king of Aragon)
- Sancho VI
- Sancho VII
Kings of León and Castile
- Sancho I (León)
- Sancho II (León and Castille)
- Sancho III (Castille)
- Sancho IV (León and Castille)
Kings of Portugal
King of Majorca
Dukes of Gascony
- Sancho I
- Sancho II
- Sancho III
- Sancho IV
- Sancho V
- Sancho VI
Counts of Castille
- Sancho García
Other historical figures
- Abd al-Rahman Sanchuelo
- Sancho (bishop of Jaca)
- Sancho, Count of Provence
- Sancho I of Astarac
- Sancho Alfónsez
- Sanciolo d'Aragona
- Sancho of Aragon (archbishop of Toledo)
- Sancho Manoel de Vilhena
- Sancho Nunes de Barbosa
- Sancho Gracia
- Sancho Ramirez
- Sancho Ramírez of Viguera
- Sancho Ramírez, Count of Ribagorza
- Sancho Sánchez
- Juan Bautista Sancho
- Ignatius Sancho, 18th century British composer, actor, and writer.
- 'Sancho', a nickname for philosopher Max Stirner in Marx and Engel's The German Ideology
Fictional
- Sancho Panza
- Sancho, a Human character in from Upcoming Jurassic World 3 (2021).
- Sancho, a Nintendo character in Upcoming Video Game from Sancho's Smash Story of Rescue Five Prequel Published by Nintendo to Smash Bros. N64/SSF.
Other
- Sancho (horse), a British Thoroughbred racehorse
- Sancho, West Virginia
- Mu Arae e, an extrasolar planet, also known as Sancho
- Brent Sancho, a Trinidadian former footballer and politician
- Jadon Sancho, an English footballer who plays for Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund and the England national team.
- The War of the Three Sanchos, an 11th century conflict between the three first cousins Jímenez kings: Sancho II of Castile, Sancho IV of Navarre, and Sancho Ramírez of Aragon, all grandsons of Sancho the Great in Northern Spain.
References
- ^ http://www.deperu.com/apellidos-peruanos/significado.php?AP=46
- ^ Eichler, Ernst; Hilty, Gerold; Löffler, Heinrich; Steger, Hugo; Zgusta, Ladislav: Namenforschung/Name Studies/Les noms propres, Walter de Gruyter, 1 January 1995, p. 748 Online