The name Sancho () is an
Iberian name of
Basque
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* Basques, an ethnic group of Spain and France
* Basque language, their language
Places
* Basque Country (greater region), the homeland of the Basque people with parts in both Spain and France
* Basque Country (autonomous co ...
origin (Santxo, Santzo, Santso, Antzo, Sans). Sancho stems from the
Latin
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name
Sanctius. Feminine forms of the name are
Sancha,
Sancia, and
Sanchia (), and the common
patronymic
A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (more specifically an avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor. It is the male equivalent of a matronymic.
Patronymics are used, b ...
is
Sánchez
Sánchez is a Spanish family name.
Historical origins
"The illustrious Sanchez Family... is descended from one of a number of Gothic knights (caballeros) who in the year 714 escaped from the ‘barbara furia’ of the Mohammedan invasion and to ...
and
Sanches.
Outside the Spanish-speaking world, the name is especially associated with the literary character
Sancho Panza
Sancho Panza (; ) is a fictional character in the novel ''Don Quixote'' written by Spain, Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in 1605. Sancho acts as squire to Don Quixote and provides comments throughout the novel, ...
.
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
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Sancho I
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Sancho II
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Sancho III
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Sancho IV
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Sancho V (also king of Aragon)
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Sancho VI
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Sancho VII
Kings of León and Castile
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Sancho I (León)
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Sancho II (León and Castille)
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Sancho III (Castille)
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Sancho IV (León and Castille)
Kings of Portugal
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Sancho I, ''o Povoador''
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Sancho II, ''o Capelo''
King of Majorca
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Sancho
Dukes of Gascony
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Sancho I
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Sancho II
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Sancho III
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Sancho IV
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Sancho V
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Sancho VI
Counts of Castille
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Sancho García
Other historical figures
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Abd al-Rahman Sanchuelo
Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi (9834 March 1009), nicknamed Sanchol ('little Sancho', Sanchuelo to later historians), was the ʿĀmirid '' hajib'' (chief minister) of the Caliphate of Córdoba under Caliph Hisham II from October 1008, at a time when ...
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Sancho (bishop of Jaca)
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Sancho, Count of Provence
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Sancho I of Astarac
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Sancho Alfónsez
Sancho Alfónsez (or Adefónsez) (c. 1093 – 29 May 1108) was the only son of King Alfonso VI of Castile and León; his mother was the Moorish princess Zaida. Alfonso's heir from May 1107, he eventually co-ruled from Toledo. He predeceased his ...
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Sanciolo d'Aragona
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Sancho of Aragon (archbishop of Toledo)
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Sancho Manoel de Vilhena
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Sancho Nunes de Barbosa
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Sancho Gracia
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Sancho Ramirez
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Sancho Ramírez of Viguera
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Sancho Ramírez, Count of Ribagorza
Sancho Ramírez (before 10431105/November 1110) was an illegitimate son of King Ramiro I of Aragon and Amuña, the firstborn and brother of his namesake who would inherit the throne and reign as Sancho Ramírez.
Biographical sketch
Even though h ...
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Sancho Sánchez
Sancho Sánchez (Floruit, fl. 1075–1127) was an important magnate of the Kingdom of Aragon in the late 11th and early 12th centuries, during the reigns of Sancho Ramírez, Peter I of Aragon and Navarre, Peter I and Alfonso the Battler, Alfonso I ...
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Juan Bautista Sancho
Joan Batista Sanxo, or Juan Bautista Sancho, (Artà, Majorca, Spain, 1772 or 1776 — Mission San Antonio de Padua, California, 1830) was a composer and scholar. He brought to California some of the first samples of 18th-century European music, in ...
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Manuela Sancho
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Charles Ignatius Sancho, 18th century British abolitionist, writer and composer.
* 'Sancho', a nickname for philosopher
Max Stirner
Johann Kaspar Schmidt (; 25 October 1806 – 26 June 1856), known professionally as Max Stirner (; ), was a German post-Hegelian philosopher, dealing mainly with the Hegelian notion of social alienation and self-consciousness. Stirner is oft ...
in Marx and Engel's ''The German Ideology''
Fictional
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Sancho Panza
Sancho Panza (; ) is a fictional character in the novel ''Don Quixote'' written by Spain, Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in 1605. Sancho acts as squire to Don Quixote and provides comments throughout the novel, ...
Other
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Brent Sancho, a Trinidadian footballer and politician
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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.
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Basque masculine given names
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