Sandra
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sandra is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 53rd most common given name. In English, recorded as Short form of Alessandra, the Italian form of Alexandra.
- ATAustria≈1 in 224(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 237
- IEIreland≈1 in 257
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #116 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 631 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 224 (inferred from the name graph)
780,828 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Zandra in BR Brazil.
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)
Diminutive of Alexandra; Greek origin, meaning "she who repels".
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sandra is read(measured from records)
Sandra is one spelling over 3 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.
- English53%
Short form of Alessandra, the Italian form of Alexandra.
as a nameIrish first names
- Spanish22%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sandra in Spanish.
- Portuguese5.9%
a diminutive of the female given name Alessandra, equivalent to English Sandra
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Sandra 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #53 | 780,828 | 1 in 426 | 780K | Sandra | 631 |
| BR Brazil | — | 447,906 | 1 in 473 | 480K | Zandra | 39 |
| DE Germany | #41 | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 295 | listed | Sandra | 295 |
| GB United Kingdom | #67 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 322 | 3 | Sandra | 360 |
| NG Nigeria | #289 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Sandra | 119 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈65,000 est. | ≈1 in 264 | 175K | — | 8 |
| AT Austria | #28 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 224 | 14K | Sandra | 177 |
| CH Switzerland | #37 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 237 | 3 | Sandra | 144 |
| IE Ireland | #34 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 257 | — | Sandra | 152 |
| LV Latvia | — | 8,147 | 1 in 231 | 8.1K | — | 58 |
780,828 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); RENAP — annual births; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population 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)
Sandra is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Diminutive of Alexandra; Greek origin, meaning "she who repels".
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In Swedish, Sandra är ursprungligen en smekform till → Alexandra. Namnet var ett av de populäraste namnen under årtiondena runt millennieskiftet men har därefter kraftigt gått tillbaka. En känd namnbärare är den amerikanska skådespelerskan Sandra Bullock (f. 1964). I den rikssvenska almanackan 17 februari och i den finlandssvenska 11 september.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Plg. lenk. S(z)andro : Aleksander (SSNO V 11), brus. Шандро (M. Бирыла, 1969, c. 466) ir liet. Sandras „žabas“ (LKŽK). Žr. dar Z. Zinkevičius, 1977, p. 203
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In Italian, forma feminina de Sandro
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Sandra Day O'Connorb. 1930USAmerican lawyer and jurist (1930–2023)
- Sandy Dennisb. 1937USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1937–1992)
- Nancy Sinatrab. 1940USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer and actress (born 1940)
- Sandra Moore Faberb. 1944USAmerican astrophysicist
- Sandy Duncanb. 1946USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, comedian, dancer and singer (born 1946)
- Sandie Shawb. 1947GBnot in their usual nameEnglish pop singer (born 1947)
- Sandra Masonb. 1949BB1st president of Barbados
- Sandra Bernhardb. 1955USAmerican actress (born 1955)
- Sandra Bullockb. 1964USAmerican actress and film producer
- Sandra Kimb. 1972BEBelgian singer
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 152 sources across 76 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 511 | #45,147 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 397 | #49,671 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 247 | #77,522 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
Reference works 7
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- 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
- What are other forms of the name Sandra?
- In the etymology graph, Ali, Alejandra and Alex are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Where does the name Sandra come from?
- Diminutive of Alexandra; Greek origin, meaning "she who repels". Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- In which country does Sandra have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 781 thousand people named Sandra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sandra.
- How common is the name Sandra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 780,828 people named Sandra in 2020, about 1 in 426 residents.
- How common is Sandra compared with other names?
- In the United States, Sandra is the 53rd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Sandra mean?
- In English, Short form of Alessandra, the Italian form of Alexandra.
- Is Sandra a male or female name?
- Sandra 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.
What do you want to know about Sandra?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sandraThe 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, “Sandra” — the 53rd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.