Sandrine
given name · Latin script
Meaning: French diminutive of Alexandra, from Greek Alexandros; 'she who repels' / 'defends men'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɑ̃dʁin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sandrine is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 34th most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 286(inferred from the name graph)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 451
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.1K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 418 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 286 (inferred from the name graph)
≈240,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
French diminutive of Alexandra, from Greek Alexandros; 'she who repels' / 'defends men'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sandrine 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #34 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 286 | 240K | Sandrine | 418 |
| CM Cameroon | #10 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 451 | — | Sandrine | 34 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #175 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | 2 | Sandrine | 11 |
| RW Rwanda | #20 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 965 | — | Sandrine | 16 |
| BE Belgium | #110 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 5 | Sandrine | 128 |
| CH Switzerland | #244 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Sandrine | 102 |
| US United States | — | 1,343 | 1 in 248K | 1.3K | Sandrine | 227 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Sandrine is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, a diminutive of the female given names Sandra or Alexandrine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Dérivé français de Sandra/Alexandra, du grec Alexandros, « qui protège les hommes ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Dérivé de Sandra, forme courte d’Alexandra, du grec Alexandros « défendre ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Dérivé français de Alexandra, grec « protectrice des hommes ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Diminutif français de Alexandra.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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)
- Sandrine Dumasb. 1963FRFrench actress
- Sandrine Piaub. 1965FRFrench opera soprano and harpist (born 1965)
- Sandrine Bonnaireb. 1967FRFrench actress, film director and screenwriter
- Sandrine Kiberlainb. 1968FRFrench actress and singer
- Sandrine Holtb. 1972GBBritish-born Canadian actress
- Sandrine Soubeyrandb. 1973FRFrench footballer (born 1973)
- Sandrine Bissonb. 1975CACanadian actress
- Sandrine Blanckeb. 1978BEBelgian actress
- Sandrine Françoisb. 1980FRFrench singer
- Sandrine Grudab. 1987FRFrench basketball player (born 1987)
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)
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 63 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2020 | 240K | #3,397 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #10,071 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 9 | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2016 | 5 | #1,383 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #10,071 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 2 | #402 |
| FR France | Dictionnaire Généalogique des Prénoms (Athias, 2007) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- What does the name Sandrine mean, and where does it come from?
- French diminutive of Alexandra, from Greek Alexandros; 'she who repels' / 'defends men'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Sandrine?
- In the etymology graph, Ali, Sandra and Alejandra are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Sandrine?
- A machine transcription gives /sɑ̃dʁin/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Sandrine a male or female name?
- Sandrine is a female 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 Sandrine have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 237 thousand people named Sandrine in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sandrine.
- How common is the name Sandrine?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,343 people named Sandrine in 2020, about 1 in 248 thousand residents.
- How common is Sandrine compared with other names?
- In France, Sandrine is the 34th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sandrine?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sandrineThe 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, “Sandrine” — the 34th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.