Sandro

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled סנדרו in 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●

Attested across 21 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◐

Sandro is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name198K records spelled Sandro12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Germany, United States, Austria

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Såndrõ, Sąņďŕö

• Italian given name30K records spelled Sandro3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, Switzerland, Philippines

  Also written Sandrò, Sàndro

• Croatian given name13K records spelled Sandro22 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, Russia, United States, Italy

  Languages: Croatian, Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Сандро, Šandro, Şandro

• Indonesian given name3.8K records spelled Sandro2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Italy, Philippines, Peru

  Also written Sấndro

• a separate given name3.4K records spelled Sandro2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Italy, Switzerland

  Also written Šandro

53 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●

Sandro 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 Portuguese, a diminutive of the male given name Alessandro

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

• In Italian, redução popular e coloquial de Alessandro

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In English, Latin; the son of Alexander

  as a name·Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

• In German, männl. Vom., italienische Kurzform von Alessandro (

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• Short form of ALESSANDRO.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

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●

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 79 years between 1929–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Sandro Botticellib. 1445ITItalian painter (1445–1510)
• Sandro Akhmetelib. 1886GEGeorgian theater director (1886-1937)
• Sandro Salvadoreb. 1939ITItalian footballer (1939-2007)
• Sandro Petragliab. 1947ITItalian screenwriter
• Sandro Koppb. 1978NZNew Zealand artist
• Sandro Schwarzb. 1978DEGerman footballer and manager
• Sandro Wagnerb. 1987DEGerman football player and manager
• Alex Sandrob. 1991BRBrazilian footballer (born 1991)
• Sandro Ramírezb. 1995ESSpanish association football player
• Sandro Tonalib. 2000ITItalian association football player

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 · 804 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sandro?

We estimate roughly 152 thousand people bear Sandro (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Sandro have the most bearers?

We estimate about 113 thousand people bear Sandro in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled sandro.

Where is Sandro most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sandro is densest in Georgia — about 1 in 261 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.

How common is Sandro compared with other names?

In Brazil, Sandro is the 262nd most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.

Is Sandro a male or female name?

Sandro 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 Sandro mean?

Recorded meaning: from Sandraw (Cumberland); first attested Adam de Sandewra 1332 SRCu