Şandra

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Şandra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Serbia it is the 84th most common given name. Recorded meaning: A short form of Alexandra. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1871.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 390(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 426
  • ESSpain1 in 508

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Şandra itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

780,828 people, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
256 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 231 (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ŞandraLatin(measured from records)
СандраCyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sandra in US United States, ES Spain, PL Poland and 4 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A short form of Alexandra. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1871.

Sources 7

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Şandra counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Şandra is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—780,8281 in 426780KSandra256
BR Brazil—447,9061 in 473480K—1
ES Spain—98,3811 in 50898KSandra53
PL Poland#14954,7741 in 69955KSandra163
EC Ecuador—53,5151 in 31654K—12
SE Sweden—31,3591 in 32531KSandra34
HR Croatia#10210,8401 in 39011KSandra122
LV Latvia#6648,1471 in 2318.1KSandra26
RS Serbia#84≈1,900 est.≈1 in 3.6KlistedSandra52
IS Iceland—8461 in 415846——

780,828 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Şandra is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name171 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Swahili

    Also written Sandra, Zandra, סנדרה, Sandrae

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Şandra under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Şandra mean, and where does it come from?
A short form of Alexandra. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1871. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 5 other sources.
In which country does Şandra have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 781 thousand people named Şandra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sandra.
Where is Şandra most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Şandra is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 231 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Şandra?
In the United States, the national register counted 780,828 people named Şandra in 2020, about 1 in 426 residents.
How common is Şandra compared with other names?
In Serbia, Şandra is the 84th most common given name of 10,960 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Şandra” — the 84th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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