Sandar

given name · Burmese · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Sandar is a given name, most frequently recorded in Myanmar (Burma), where it is the 52nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Burmese and Hindi, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • MMMyanmar (Burma)1 in 9.6K
  • SGSingapore1 in 82K
  • THThailand1 in 166K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈318

across 5 countries

Sources
57

2.0K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.0M

Sweden

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Sandar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MM Myanmar (Burma)#523,123697 rec.listedSandar52
TH Thailand855461 rec.Sandar38
US United States266354 rec.1 in 1.3M266Sandar57
MY Malaysia14650 rec.Sandar12
SG Singapore131192 rec.Sandar17
MX Mexico4920 rec.Sandar11
BR Brazil368 rec.1 in 5.9M36Sandar13
GB United Kingdom3124 rec.Sandar18
IN India3029 rec.21Sandar3
CL Chile124 rec.1Sandar6
CN China122 rec.Sandar6
CO Colombia129 rec.Sandar8

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages

  • Burmese3.6K37%
  • Hindi2.4K24%
  • English1.1K11%
  • Thai8729%
  • Indonesian3203%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Burmese3,63837%
Hindi2,35224%
English1,10611%
Thai8729%
Indonesian3203%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way

Sandar is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name2.9K records spelled Sandar3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Singapore, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  • English given name1.8K records spelled Sandar5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Singapore

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Sanďar

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

Sandar is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Indonesian, imperative of menyandar (“to lean”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Icelandic, indefinite nominative plural of sandur

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In zlm, reclining; resting on a support

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Swedish, present indicative of sanda

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In non, nominative plural of sandr

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In poz-wmp-pro, lean on or against

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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.

Over time

05101519501960197013 · 1964

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Sandar in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1948–1974
Yearrecords
19485
19536
19556
19569
19578
19588
195911
19606
19616
19625
19637
196413
19657
19668
196711
196810
19697
19706
197111
19727
19735
19745

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)22 years between 1948–1974. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name

  • Alek Sandarb. 1987DEBulgarian singer, songwriter, music producer

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

Attested in 26 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Sandar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020266#31,173
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls42#9,979
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202236
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)34#58,137
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)34#57,670
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)33#83,466
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)26#52,138
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)22#18,072
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls21#77,377
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)196413
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)195512
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)197111

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 168 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sandar?
We estimate roughly 318 people bear Sandar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Sandar have the most bearers?
Sandar is most frequently recorded in Myanmar (Burma), where it is most often spelled sandar.
How common is Sandar compared with other names?
In Myanmar (Burma), Sandar is the 52nd most common given name of 9,034 given names recorded there.
Is Sandar a male or female name?
Sandar is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Sandar” — the 52nd most common given name in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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