Sancho

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title: "Sancho" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["basque-masculine-given-names", "given-names-derived-from-holidays", "spanish-masculine-given-names", "portuguese-masculine-given-names"] topic_path: "geography/spain" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sancho" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Sancho
pronunciation

| | gender | Male | | language | , | | origin | | | meaning | 'saint', 'holy' | | variant forms | Santxo, Santzo, Santso, Antzo, Sans | | footnotes | | ::

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| gender = Male | masculine = | feminine = | motto = | language = , | languageorigin = | origin = | derivation = | meaning = 'saint', 'holy' | region = | alternative spelling = | nickname = | shortform = | petname = | variant forms = Santxo, Santzo, Santso, Antzo, Sans | related names = | cognate = | anglicisation = | name day = | derived = | derivative = | seealso = | popularity = | footnotes = The name Sancho is an Iberian name. Sancho stems from the Latin name Sanctius. The feminine form of the name is Sanchia, and the common patronymic is Sánchez and Sanches.

Outside the Spanish-speaking world, the name is especially associated with the literary character Sancho Panza. Sancho is a common slang term in the Spanish speaking world for the other man in the relationship. As in a spouse or girlfriend who is being unfaithful with a Sancho. Sancha is the feminine equivalent.

Kings of Navarre

• 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

• Sancho I, o Povoador
• Sancho II, o Capelo

King of Majorca

• Sancho

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
• Manuela Sancho
• Charles Ignatius Sancho, 18th century British abolitionist, writer and composer.
• 'Sancho', a nickname for philosopher Max Stirner in Marx and Engel's The German Ideology

Fictional

• Sancho Panza

Other

• Brent Sancho, a Trinidadian footballer and politician
• Jadon Sancho, an English footballer of Trinidadian descent
• 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

References

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3. Eichler, Ernst; Hilty, Gerold; Löffler, Heinrich; Steger, Hugo; Zgusta, Ladislav: ''Namenforschung/Name Studies/Les noms propres'', Walter de Gruyter, 1 January 1995, p. 748 [https://books.google.com/books?id=ck1CLzJq9vAC&dq=Sancho+sanctius+basque&pg=PA748 Online]
4. "The Tortilla Curtain".

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