Sandro
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: a diminutive of the male given name Alessandro
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɐ̃dɾu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sandro is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Georgia it is the 24th most common given name.
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 835(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 1.4K
- BRBrazil1 in 1.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sandro itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 229 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 835 (inferred from the name graph)
113,102 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
from Sandraw (Cumberland); first attested Adam de Sandewra 1332 SRCu
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sandro is read(measured from records)
Sandro is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese41%
a diminutive of the male given name Alessandro
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Georgian21%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sandro in Georgian.
- Spanish19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sandro in Spanish.
- English5.5%
from Sandraw (Cumberland); first attested Adam de Sandewra 1332 SRCu
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Latin; the son of Alexander
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sandro 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #200 | 113,102 | 1 in 1.9K | 125K | Sandro | 197 |
| IT Italy | #915 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 18 | Sandro | 117 |
| GE Georgia | #24 | 15,290as სანდრო | 1 in 261 | 15K | Sandro | 77 |
| AR Argentina | #573 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | 79 | Sandro | 74 |
| PE Peru | #548 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Sandro | 88 |
| CH Switzerland | #275 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 835 | — | Sandro | 85 |
| PT Portugal | #202 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | listed | Sandro | 111 |
113,102 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); the pt-irn-lista-nomes 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sandro is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, redução popular e coloquial de Alessandro
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In German, männl. Vom., italienische Kurzform von Alessandro (
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Short form of ALESSANDRO.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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)
- Sandro Botticellib. 1445ITItalian painter (1445–1510)
- Sandro Akhmetelib. 1886GEGeorgian theater director (1886-1937)
- Sandro Salvadoreb. 1939ITItalian footballer (1939-2007)
- Sandro Petragliab. 1947ITItalian screenwriter
- Sandro Koppb. 1978NZNew Zealand artist
- Sandro Schwarzb. 1978DEGerman footballer and manager
- Sandro Wagnerb. 1987DEGerman football player and manager
- Alex Sandrob. 1991BRBrazilian footballer (born 1991)
- Sandro Ramírezb. 1995ESSpanish association football player
- Sandro Tonalib. 2000ITItalian association football 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).
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 85 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 125K | #392 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 113K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 113K | #285 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 579 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 490 | #285 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 18 | #560 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 10 | #2,112 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 3 | — |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Sandro come from?
- from Sandraw (Cumberland); first attested Adam de Sandewra 1332 SRCu Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Is Sandro a male or female name?
- Sandro 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 Sandro?
- In the etymology graph, Alejandro, Alexander and Alex are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Alessandro and Aleksandre.
- How do you pronounce Sandro?
- A machine transcription gives /sɐ̃dɾu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- What does the name Sandro mean?
- In Portuguese, a diminutive of the male given name Alessandro
- In which country does Sandro have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 113 thousand people named Sandro, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sandro.
- How common is the name Sandro?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 113,102 people named Sandro in 2022, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Sandro compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Sandro is the 200th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sandro?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sandroThe 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, “Sandro” — the 200th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.