Sándor
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Alexander
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sándor is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common given name.
- HUHungary1 in 72(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 3.2K
- USUnited States1 in 200K
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)
- Sources
- 246 (measured from records)
- 1 in 72 (inferred from the name graph)
136,660 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sandor in HU Hungary, US United States, RO Romania and 2 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 male given name, equivalent to English Alexander
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sándor 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #7 | 136,660 | 1 in 72 | 137K | Sandor | 205 |
| RO Romania | #249 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Sandor | 66 |
| US United States | — | 1,663 | 1 in 200K | 1.8K | Sandor | 246 |
| SE Sweden | — | 629 | 1 in 16K | 629 | Sándor | 36 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 607 | 1 in 28K | 607 | Sandor | 56 |
| SV El Salvador | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Sandor | 10 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 76 | Sándor | 15 |
136,660 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025, counting the spelling sándor. 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Sándor is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Hungarian form of ALEXANDER .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sándor Kőrösi Csomab. 1784HUHungarian philologist and orientalist (1784-1842)
- Sándor Petőfib. 1823HUHungarian poet and liberal revolutionary (1823–1849)
- Sándor Simonyi-Semadamb. 1864HUPrime Minister of Hungary (1864-1946)
- Sándor Ferenczib. 1873HUHungarian psychoanalyst (1873–1933)
- Sándor Garbaib. 1879HUChairman of the Hungarian Central Executive Council (Prime minister) (1879-1947)
- S. Z. Sakallb. 1883HUnot in their usual nameHungarian actor (1883–1955)
- Alexander Kordab. 1893HUnot in their usual nameBritish film director (1893–1956)
- Sándor Máraib. 1900HUHungarian writer (1900–1989)
- Sándor Taricsb. 1913HUHungarian water polo player (1913–2016)
- Sándor Kocsisb. 1929HUHungarian footballer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 14 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Sándor mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Alexander Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Sándor have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 137 thousand people named Sándor, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sandor.
- Where is Sándor most common?
- Sándor is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 72 people carrying it.
- Is Sándor a male or female name?
- Sándor 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.
- What are other forms of the name Sándor?
- In the etymology graph, Alex, Sandro and Sasha are forms of the same name in other languages; Sanyi is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Sándor?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 136,660 people named Sándor in 2025, about 1 in 72 residents.
- How common is Sándor compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Sándor is the 7th most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sándor?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%A1ndorThe 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, “Sándor” — the 7th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.