Sánder

given name · Latin script

Sánder is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Clipping of Alexander/Aleksander.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 37K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 48K
  • DKDenmark1 in 5.6K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

9,090 people, 2010

Record sources
111 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sander in US United States, AR Argentina, PY Paraguay.

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)

Clipping of Alexander/Aleksander.

Cited for this meaning 7

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Sánder 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 Sánder is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—9,0901 in 37K9.1KSander110
DK Denmark—1,0491 in 5.6K2.4K——
AR Argentina—9571 in 48K957Sander43
PL Poland—6171 in 62K322——
NO Norway—5341 in 10K39K—22
CH Switzerland—2821 in 30K282—6
FI Finland—1571 in 35K927—3
PY Paraguay#928———Sander8

9,090 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Sánder 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 Sánder mean, and where does it come from?
Clipping of Alexander/Aleksander. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 5 other sources.
In which country does Sánder have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 9.1 thousand people named Sánder, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sander.
Where is Sánder most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sánder is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 5.6 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sánder?
In the United States, the national register counted 9,090 people named Sánder in 2010, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
How common is Sánder compared with other names?
In Paraguay, Sánder is the 928th most common surname of 30,328 surnames 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, “Sánder” — the 928th most common surname in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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