Şander
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Şander is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Clipping of Alexander/Aleksander.
- DEGermany≈1 in 2.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 37K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 55K
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 Şander 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 355 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
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, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 3 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)
Clipping of Alexander/Aleksander.
Sources 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 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Şander 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #137 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | listed | Sander | 196 |
| US United States | — | 9,090 | 1 in 37K | 27K | Sander | 355 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Sander | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 55K | 60 | Sander | 106 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,189as Zander | 1 in 8.6K | 1.2K | Sander | 41 |
| DK Denmark | — | 1,049 | 1 in 5.6K | 2.4K | — | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | 534 | 1 in 10K | 39K | — | 46 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | 60 | Sander | 47 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Siseministeerium — newborn 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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 Şander 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 Şander have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Şander in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sander.
- How common is the name Şander?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,090 people named Şander in 2010, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
- How common is Şander compared with other names?
- In Germany, Şander is the 137th most common surname of 765,306 surnames 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/%C5%9FanderThe 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, “Şander” — the 137th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.