Sandor
given name · Hungarian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sandor is a given name, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Hungarian; protector of men; from Alexander.
- HUHungary1 in 72◐
- RORomania1 in 10K
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 151K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈140K ●
- Sources
- 218 ●
- 1 in 72 ◐
across 9 countries
43K records
Official registry-verified
Hungary
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Sándor in SK Slovakia, EE Estonia, CH Switzerland and 1 more.
Meaning & origin●
Hungarian; protector of men; from Alexander
Sources 1
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Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #8 | 136,660△ | 21K rec. | 1 in 72 | 137K | Sandor | 188 |
| RO Romania | #289 | 3,140 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Sandor | 60 |
| US United States | — | 1,659 | 13K rec. | 1 in 201K | 1.8K | Sandor | 218 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,370 | 986 rec. | — | listed | Sandor | 84 |
| SK Slovakia | #325 | 978 | 70 rec. | — | 938 | Sándor | 49 |
| SV El Salvador | — | 684 | 543 rec. | — | — | Sandor | 10 |
| SE Sweden | — | 629△ | 101 rec. | 1 in 16K | 629 | — | 33 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 607 | 426 rec. | 1 in 28K | 607 | Sandor | 57 |
| CL Chile | — | 586 | 70 rec. | — | 1 | Sandor | 26 |
| MX Mexico | — | 487 | 390 rec. | — | — | Sandor | 50 |
| CA Canada | — | 418 | 488 rec. | — | 7 | Sandor | 54 |
| PE Peru | — | 383 | 369 rec. | — | — | Sandor | 23 |
Roughly 137K people in Hungary bear this name (about 1 in 72). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hungarian2.3M98%
- English15K1%
- Spanish4.9K1%
- German3.8K1%
- Portuguese3K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | 2,303,911 | 98% |
| English | 14,590 | 1% |
| Spanish | 4,937 | 1% |
| German | 3,820 | 1% |
| Portuguese | 3,018 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Sandor is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Sandor är en ungersk form av → Alexander. Det kan i Sverige också vara en sidoform till → Sander.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1924 | 7 |
| 1929 | 5 |
| 1932 | 7 |
| 1933 | 7 |
| 1935 | 7 |
| 1937 | 7 |
| 1938 | 6 |
| 1942 | 7 |
| 1943 | 9 |
| 1945 | 10 |
| 1946 | 11 |
| 1947 | 5 |
| 1949 | 9 |
| 1950 | 6 |
| 1951 | 8 |
| 1952 | 13 |
| 1953 | 12 |
| 1954 | 6 |
| 1955 | 6 |
| 1956 | 8 |
| 1957 | 16 |
| 1958 | 9 |
| 1959 | 9 |
| 1960 | 14 |
| 1961 | 22 |
| 1962 | 13 |
| 1963 | 20 |
| 1964 | 14 |
| 1965 | 13 |
| 1966 | 22 |
| 1967 | 10 |
| 1968 | 20 |
| 1969 | 21 |
| 1970 | 29 |
| 1971 | 22 |
| 1972 | 14 |
| 1973 | 16 |
| 1974 | 21 |
| 1975 | 13 |
| 1976 | 14 |
| 1977 | 17 |
| 1978 | 11 |
| 1979 | 10 |
| 1980 | 10 |
| 1981 | 17 |
| 1982 | 6 |
| 1983 | 11 |
| 1984 | 12 |
| 1985 | 11 |
| 1986 | 10 |
| 1987 | 13 |
| 1988 | 7 |
| 1989 | 8 |
| 1990 | 12 |
| 1991 | 12 |
| 1992 | 9 |
| 1993 | 13 |
| 1994 | 8 |
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1996 | 6 |
| 1997 | 8 |
| 1998 | 8 |
| 1999 | 18 |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2001 | 9 |
| 2003 | 13 |
| 2004 | 6 |
| 2005 | 12 |
| 2006 | 11 |
| 2007 | 8 |
| 2008 | 12 |
| 2009 | 6 |
| 2010 | 8 |
| 2011 | 5 |
| 2012 | 7 |
| 2013 | 10 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2015 | 10 |
| 2016 | 11 |
| 2017 | 8 |
| 2018 | 10 |
| 2019 | 11 |
| 2020 | 9 |
| 2022 | 8 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2024 | 8 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 86 years between 1924–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Sándor Kőrösi Csomab. 1784HUHungarian philologist and orientalist (1784-1842)
- Sándor Petőfib. 1823HUHungarian poet and liberal revolutionary (1823–1849)
- Sándor Ferenczib. 1873HUHungarian psychoanalyst (1873–1933)
- Sándor Garbaib. 1879HUChairman of the Hungarian Central Executive Council (Prime minister) (1879-1947)
- S. Z. Sakallb. 1883HUnot in their usual nameHungarian actor (1883–1955)
- Alexander Kordab. 1893HUnot in their usual nameBritish film director (1893–1956)
- Sándor Máraib. 1900HUHungarian writer (1900–1989)
- Sándor Taricsb. 1913HUHungarian water polo player (1913–2016)
- Sándor Kocsisb. 1929HUHungarian footballer
- Sandor Sternb. 1936CACanadian writer, director and film producer (born 1936)
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 60 sources across 31 countries.
Reference works 4
- 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)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 350 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Sandor?
- We estimate roughly 140 thousand people bear Sandor (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Sandor have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 137 thousand people bear Sandor in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled sandor.
- Where is Sandor most common?
- Sandor is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 72 people carrying it.
- How common is Sandor compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Sandor is the 8th most common given name of 18,750 given names recorded there.
- Is Sandor a male or female name?
- Sandor 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 does the name Sandor mean?
- Recorded meaning: Hungarian; protector of men; from Alexander
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About this data
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, “Sandor” — the 8th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.