Šandor

given name · Latin script

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

/ʂa˦˨nd̪or/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Šandor is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 4.4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia≈1 in 7.5K
  • HUHungary1 in 72

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Hungary (measured from records)

136,660 people, 2025

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
24 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 72 (inferred from the name graph)

Hungary

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ŠandorLatin(measured from records)
ШандорCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sandor in US United States.

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)

recorded in Swedish

Sandor är en ungersk form av → Alexander. Det kan i Sverige också vara en sidoform till → Sander.

Sources 2

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Šandor 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 Šandor is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HU Hungary—136,6601 in 72137K——
US United States—1,6631 in 200K1.8KSandor8
RS Serbia#308≈1,600 est.≈1 in 4.4KlistedŠandor16
SE Sweden—6291 in 16K629——
NL Netherlands—6071 in 28K607—2
HR Croatia#684≈560 est.≈1 in 7.5K323Šandor24

136,660 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025. 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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)

Šandor is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Sandór, Șandor, Sandor, Şandor, Šándor

  • Hungarian given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Romania, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hungarian, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Sandor, Sándor, Sàndor, Sa'Ndor, Şandor

  • English given name11 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Sandor, Šándor, Sàndor, Sandór, Șandor

  • Finnish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia, Finland, Romania

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Sandor, Sándor

11 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalBok Šandor,Hi Šandor, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Šandor
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021275#1,007
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021177—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Šandor?
A machine transcription gives /ʂa˦˨nd̪or/ (IPA) for Croatian.
Is Šandor a male or female name?
Šandor is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Šandor have the most bearers?
In Hungary, the national register counted about 137 thousand people named Šandor, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Šandor most common?
Šandor is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 72 people carrying it.
How common is the name Šandor?
In Hungary, the national register counted 136,660 people named Šandor in 2025, about 1 in 72 residents.
How common is Šandor compared with other names?
In Serbia, Šandor is the 308th most common given name of 10,960 given names recorded there.

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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1andor

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

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, “Šandor” — the 308th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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