Sandi

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sandi is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 42nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sabiri (West Africa): historic name for priest-chiefs; also short form of Alexandria.

rarermore common
  • SVEl Salvador1 in 17◐
  • HNHonduras1 in 17
  • BOBolivia1 in 20

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

≈119K ●

across 8 countries

#389 ●

of 16M given names

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
519 ●

3.9M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 329 ◐

Latvia

Spellings & scripts●

SantaLatin · Spanish●3.8M records
סנדיHebrew · Hebrew●3.1K records
СандиCyrillic · Russian●536 records
ชานิตThai · Thai●52 records
ΣανταGreek · Greek●3 records
산타Hangul · Korean●2 records
සාන්තSinhala · Sinhala●0 records

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Santa in SV El Salvador, PE Peru, ES Spain and 9 more, Sandy in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 8 more, Shanti in IN India, MY Malaysia, ID Indonesia and סנדי in FR France, IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Sabiri (West Africa): historic name for priest-chiefs; also short form of Alexandria.

Sources 1

  • African Names

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Sandi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#424,763,7191.9M rec.—189KShanti158
SV El Salvador—1,155,0781.9K rec.——Santa12
PE Peru—629,280150K rec.——Santa58
PY Paraguay—337,5187.4K rec.——Santa18
BO Bolivia—325,9661.7K rec.——Santa24
MX Mexico—318,49090K rec.—200Santa107
AR Argentina—198,015124K rec.—18KSanta72
GT Guatemala—187,9443.4K rec.——Santa21
HN Honduras—168,0523.3K rec.——Santa12
CO Colombia—111,1346K rec.——Santa95
US United States#37969,1541.2M rec.1 in 4.8K69KSandy519
GB United Kingdom#46152,85155K rec.—4Sandy194

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

Languages●

  • English172K50%
  • Portuguese32K9%
  • Indonesian28K8%
  • Spanish23K7%
  • 19K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English172,36050%
Portuguese31,5929%
Indonesian28,1808%
Spanish23,2347%
19,4416%

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◐

Sandi is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name156K records spelled Sandi20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Mexico, Peru

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Sandí, Sandì, Sandï, Sąndį, Såndî

  • Indonesian given name52K records spelled Sandi7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Malaysia, India

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Sandi, Sandi', Sàñdi, Śäñdí, Sandí

  • a separate given name23K records spelled Sandi5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Sandí, Sandī, Šandī, Sándi

  • Croatian given name7.0K records spelled Sandi20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Slovenia, Bulgaria

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Serbian

    Also written Sandy, Санди, Šandi, Шанди, Šandy

  • Hungarian given name5.8K records spelled Sandi4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, United States, Hungary, Canada

    Also written Sándi, Sàndi, Sándï

  • Swahili given name4.1K records spelled Sandi4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Africa, Peru, Canada

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Sandí

61 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●

Sandi 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 Indonesian, code: a message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning

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

  • In English, A diminutive of the female given names Sandra, Alexandra, or Cassandra.

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

  • In men, Tasteless. Grows slowly. Name not confirmed

    as a wordMende Natural History Vocabulary

  • In Icelandic, indefinite dative singular of sandur

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

  • In non, dative singular of sandr

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

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●

010020030040019401960198020002020368 · 1959

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Sandi in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1934–2025
Yearrecords
19346
19368
193714
193821
193926
194037
194147
194298
1943101
1944104
1945155
1946218
1947256
1948173
1949125
195088
195168
195256
195365
195479
1955102
1956155
1957221
1958293
1959368
1960353
1961357
1962330
1963331
1964357
1965261
1966282
1967279
1968279
1969274
1970310
1971286
1972262
1973215
1974204
1975211
1976172
1977174
1978168
1979182
1980159
1981164
1982152
1983113
1984119
1985111
198694
198765
198880
198982
199063
199155
199259
199347
199442
199549
199628
199738
199823
199923
200030
200134
200232
200323
200429
200521
200615
200726
200818
200925
201017
20119
201211
20139
20149
20155
20167
20189
202013
20227
20235
20245
20255

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 88 years between 1934–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Sandi Patty, b. 1956Sandi Jackson, b. 1963Sandi Schultz, b. 1964Sandi Papež, b. 1965Sandi Simcha DuBowski, b. 1970Sandi Thom, b. 1981Sandi Križman, b. 1989Sandi Morris, b. 1992Sandi Lovrić, b. 1998Sandi Ogrinec, b. 1998

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 71 sources across 37 countries.

Official registers attesting Sandi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—18K#111
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20209.8K#2,471
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—2.8K#4,838
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20252.2K#110
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—2.2K#235
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.9K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.7K#5,260
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—922#5,858
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021860#583
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021815—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020545#42,786
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010447#47,429

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 558 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sandi?
We estimate roughly 119 thousand people bear Sandi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Sandi have the most bearers?
Sandi is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled shanti.
How common is Sandi compared with other names?
In India, Sandi is the 42nd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Sandi a male or female name?
Sandi 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 does the name Sandi mean?
Recorded meaning: Sabiri (West Africa): historic name for priest-chiefs; also short form of Alexandria.
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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, “Sandi” — the 42nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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