Sandis
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sandis is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds.
- LVLatvia1 in 597(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 22K
- LTLithuania≈1 in 68K
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.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- 1 in 597 (inferred from the name graph)
3,149 people
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Vīrieša vārds
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sandis 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #142 | 3,149 | 1 in 597 | 3.1K | Sandis | 70 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 552K | — | Sandis | 41 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Sandis | 26 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 88K | 198 | Sandis | 10 |
| US United States | — | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 6.3M | listed | Sandis | 57 |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 68K | listed | Sandis | 9 |
| IS Iceland | — | 16 | 1 in 22K | 16 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 117K | 11 | Sandis | 10 |
3,149 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); the lt-vlkk-vardai register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sandis Prūsisb. 1965LVLatvian bobsledder
- Sandis Ozoliņšb. 1972LVLatvian ice hockey player (born 1972)
- Sandis Riekstiņšb. 1979LVLatvian politician
- Sandis Ģirģensb. 1980LVLatvian lawyer and politician
- Sandis Dzenītisb. 2001Latvian athletics competitor (born 2001)
- Sandis Vilmanisb. 2004LVLatvian ice hockey player
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 21 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 3.1K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 3.1K | #175 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 198 | #4,836 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 16 | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 11 | #2,081 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| LT Lithuania | VLKK — Lietuvos Respublikos piliečių vardų sąvadas (recommended names) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Sandis mean?
- Recorded meaning: Vīrieša vārds
- Is Sandis a male or female name?
- Sandis 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 Sandis?
- In the etymology graph, Alexander, Alex and Alec are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Sandis have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Sandis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sandis.
- Where is Sandis most common?
- Sandis is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 597 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sandis?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 3,149 people named Sandis, about 1 in 597 residents.
- How common is Sandis compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Sandis is the 142nd most common given name of 11,601 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/sandisThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Sandis” — the 142nd most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.