Sandra

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled סנדרה in FR France, IL Israel and Zandra in PH Philippines.

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●

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Sandra is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Portuguese given name8.1M records spelled Sandra25 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Portugal, Spain

  Languages: Portuguese, Romanian

  Also written Șandra, Shandra, Sándra, Sändrä, Sandrá

• Spanish given name5.6M records spelled Sandra20 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Argentina, Mexico, Spain, United States

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Sändrä, Sandrá, Sândrâ, Sändra, S'Andra

• French given name927K records spelled Sandra11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

  Also written Sàndrà, San'Dra, San-Dra, Sandrà, Sàndra

• a separate given name771K records spelled Sandra5 spellings in the group

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

  Also written Sandrá, Șandra, Sandrà, Šandra

• Polish given name475K records spelled Sandra72 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, Croatia, Czechia, United States

  Languages: Polish, Croatian, Czech

  Also written Сандра, Saundra, 'Sandra, Shandra, Šandra

• Indonesian given name59K records spelled Sandra4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Spain, Malaysia

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written 'Sandra, Sandra'

• Finnish given name52K records spelled Sandra6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, Hungary, United States, Slovenia

  Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

  Also written Santra, Sändrä, Sándrá

101 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●

Sandra 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 English, Short form of Alessandra, the Italian form of Alexandra.

  as a name·Irish first names

• In Portuguese, a diminutive of the female given name Alessandra, equivalent to English Sandra

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• 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 name·Förnamn 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 name·Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

• In Italian, forma feminina de Sandro

  as a name·Dicionário 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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 122 years between 1904–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,759 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sandra?

We estimate roughly 1.6 million people bear Sandra (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.

In which country does Sandra have the most bearers?

We estimate about 780 thousand people bear Sandra in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled sandra.

How common is Sandra compared with other names?

In the United States, Sandra is the 55th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

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 does the name Sandra mean?

Recorded meaning: Diminutive of Alexandra; Greek origin, meaning "she who repels".