Șandra
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Șandra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Portugal it is the 30th most common given name. Recorded meaning: A short form of Alexandra. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1871.
- USUnited States1 in 426(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 473
- ESSpain1 in 508
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 424 (measured from records)
- 1 in 231 (inferred from the name graph)
780,828 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sandra in BR Brazil, US United States, ES Spain and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A short form of Alexandra. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1871.
Sources 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Șandra counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 780,828 | 1 in 426 | 780K | Sandra | 424 |
| BR Brazil | #71 | 447,906 | 1 in 473 | 480K | Sandra | 232 |
| ES Spain | #446 | 98,381 | 1 in 508 | 98K | Sandra | 150 |
| PL Poland | — | 54,774 | 1 in 699 | 55K | — | 1 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 53,515 | 1 in 316 | 54K | — | 32 |
| SE Sweden | — | 31,359 | 1 in 325 | 31K | Sandra | 59 |
| HR Croatia | — | 10,840 | 1 in 390 | 11K | — | 1 |
| LV Latvia | — | 8,147 | 1 in 231 | 8.1K | — | 22 |
| IS Iceland | — | 846 | 1 in 415 | 846 | — | — |
| PT Portugal | #30 | — | — | listed | Sandra | 176 |
780,828 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Irina ȘandraROresearcher
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(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Șandra mean, and where does it come from?
- A short form of Alexandra. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1871. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Șandra have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 781 thousand people named Șandra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sandra.
- Where is Șandra most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Șandra is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 231 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Șandra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 780,828 people named Șandra in 2020, about 1 in 426 residents.
- How common is Șandra compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Șandra is the 30th most common given name of 19,352 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C8%99andraThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Șandra” — the 30th most common given name in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.