Sandra
Sandra reached its high-water mark in 1947 at number 5, and has been recorded 878,223 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,207th. About 659,000 Sandras are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 68.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Sandra boys named Sandra
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 878,223
- Estimated living today
- 659,000
- Median age today
- 68
- Peak year
- 1947
- Best rank
- 5th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,207th
- First recorded
- 1904
- Girls / boys
- 875,531 / 2,692
How old the living Sandras are
born that year still alive today
Of the 878,223 babies given the name since 1904, about 659,000 are alive — 75 in every hundred. Roughly 6,300 of them are children and 395,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1957 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
A short form of Alexandra and less often, of Cassandra.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Sandras
- Sandra Bullock (born 1964)American actress and film producer
- Sandra Mason (born 1949)1st president of Barbados
- Sandra Day O'Connor (1930–2023)American lawyer and jurist
- Sandra Oh (born 1971)Canadian and American actress
- Sandra Kim (born 1972)Belgian singer
- Sandra (born 1962)German singer
- Sandra Perković (born 1990)Croatian athlete who competes in the sport of discus throw
- Sandra Dee (1942–2005)American actress and model
People named Sandra with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Sandra is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Sandra is most concentrated in West Virginia (1.5×), Vermont (1.5×), Wisconsin (1.4×), Maine (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1947
The most popular girls’ names the year Sandra peaked:
Sandra elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Sandra | 103,915 | 10th |
| Poland girls | Sandra | 23,409 birth registrations | 21st |
| Austria girls | Sandra | 13,673 | 2nd |
| Spain girls | Sandra | 12,689 | 25th |
| Ireland girls | Sandra | 8,006 | 14th |
| New Zealand girls | Sandra | 7,429 | 3rd |
| Norway girls | Sandra | 6,302 | 20th |
| Sweden girls | Sandra | 2,218 | 26th |
| Scotland girls | Sandra | 1,158 | 60th |
| Italy girls | Sandra | 1,129 | — |
| England and Wales girls | Sandra | 1,082 | 556th |
| Denmark girls | Sandra | 925 | 40th |
| Switzerland girls | Sandra | 653 | 61st |
| Belgium girls | Sandra | 444 | 210th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Sandra | 25 | 364th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Sandra: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Sandra | 527 | 0.042% | 53rd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Sandra | 101 | 0.023% | 123rd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Sandra | 22 | 0.034% | 84th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Sandra | 3 | 0.081% | 16th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Sandra is most concentrated in St. Gallen, where 0.05% of children were given it – 60 of them.
Sandra: rank by region
In 2022, Sandra was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Sandra | 843 | 5 |
In 2016, Sandra was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Sandra | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, Sandra was given 2 times or more in 13 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Sandra | 190 | 3 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Sandra | 143 | 3 |
| Lubelskie | Sandra | 101 | 6 |
| Łódzkie | Sandra | 128 | 5 |
| Małopolskie | Sandra | 108 | 15 |
| Mazowieckie | Sandra | 161 | 10 |
| Podkarpackie | Sandra | 98 | 8 |
| Podlaskie | Sandra | 82 | 6 |
| Pomorskie | Sandra | 146 | 5 |
| Śląskie | Sandra | 137 | 8 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Sandra | 109 | 3 |
| Wielkopolskie | Sandra | 204 | 3 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Sandra | 110 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Sandra by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 6 | 538th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Sandra among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Sandra | 27,577 | 30,023 |
| Finland girls | Sandra | 2,265 | 2,782 |
| the Netherlands boys | Sandra | — | 160 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Sandra lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 98,381 women called Sandra were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barcelona | Sandra | 16,241 | 5.337 | 33 |
| Burgos | Sandra | 935 | 5.160 | 35 |
| León | Sandra | 1,184 | 5.149 | 34 |
| Valencia/València | Sandra | 6,997 | 4.958 | 38 |
| Segovia | Sandra | 377 | 4.782 | 36 |
| Palencia | Sandra | 378 | 4.731 | 43 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Sandra against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.