Meaning not yet researched.
Sandra: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 188 in 2025. Its best rank was #5 in 1947.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #5 in 1947; #1,210 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Sandra in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,210 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1947, at #5.
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Sandra: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 188 girls in 2025. Peak: #5 in 1947 · most girls in one year: 34,779 (1947).
In 2025, 188 US girls were named Sandra, making it the 1,210th most common girls’ name of the year, down 162 places from #1,048 in 2024. That is 52 fewer than the 240 girls named Sandra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5, reached in 1947. That year also had the most girls given the name: 34,779. For comparison, it was #830 in 2015 and #8 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sandra in 122 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1904 with 8 babies. In all, 878,223 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 266,258 babies named Sandra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,530 US girls were named Sandra; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 320. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,549 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Sandra ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #677 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Sandy (79,530 babies since 1880), Andra (8,164 babies since 1880), Zandra (3,547 babies since 1880) and Saundra (17,862 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sanna, Xandra and Sandrah are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Cassandra and Sandy.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Greek and Icelandic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Sanna (731), Xandra (514), Sandrah (12), Zaundra (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Sandra is listed as a nickname for Alexandra, Alexandria, Cassandra, Sandy.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 7 | #677 | #646 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #737 | — |
| Alabama | 6 | #808 | #938 |
| Illinois | 11 | #846 | #1,049 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #990 | #733 |
| California | 27 | #1,021 | #722 |
| Texas | 27 | #1,056 | #552 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,143 | #658 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,330 | #1,724 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,417 | #1,054 |
| New York | 9 | #1,505 | #880 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,527 | #730 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,646 | #888 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 188 | #1,210 | — | — |
| 2024 | 240 | #1,048 | — | — |
| 2023 | 235 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 2022 | 233 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 2021 | 259 | #994 | — | — |
| 2020 | 222 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 2019 | 262 | #987 | — | — |
| 2018 | 270 | #980 | — | — |
| 2017 | 301 | #895 | — | — |
| 2016 | 320 | #882 | — | — |
| 2015 | 338 | #830 | — | — |
| 2014 | 355 | #793 | — | — |
| 2013 | 357 | #764 | — | — |
| 2012 | 415 | #681 | — | — |
| 2011 | 473 | #611 | — | — |
| 2010 | 581 | #515 | — | — |
| 2009 | 586 | #519 | — | — |
| 2008 | 722 | #442 | — | — |
| 2007 | 800 | #407 | — | — |
| 2006 | 892 | #364 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,019 | #315 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,176 | #280 | 7 | #9,758 |
| 2003 | 1,180 | #266 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,140 | #274 | 10 | #6,958 |
| 2001 | 1,209 | #264 | 7 | #9,055 |
| 2000 | 1,268 | #257 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,287 | #248 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,366 | #228 | 6 | #9,434 |
| 1997 | 1,448 | #202 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,659 | #181 | 10 | #5,896 |
| 1995 | 1,708 | #177 | 11 | #5,441 |
| 1994 | 1,768 | #171 | 17 | #3,876 |
| 1993 | 1,885 | #168 | 12 | #4,946 |
| 1992 | 2,015 | #153 | 22 | #3,096 |
| 1991 | 2,141 | #143 | 14 | #4,182 |
| 1990 | 2,343 | #134 | 24 | #2,762 |
| 1989 | 2,327 | #129 | 44 | #1,762 |
| 1988 | 2,258 | #128 | 35 | #1,905 |
| 1987 | 2,411 | #115 | 21 | #2,627 |
| 1986 | 2,639 | #106 | 23 | #2,419 |
| 1985 | 2,663 | #105 | 21 | #2,487 |
| 1984 | 2,881 | #94 | 27 | #2,025 |
| 1983 | 3,175 | #88 | 23 | #2,261 |
| 1982 | 3,655 | #80 | 33 | #1,765 |
| 1981 | 4,037 | #74 | 29 | #1,939 |
| 1980 | 4,002 | #80 | 27 | #2,044 |
| 1979 | 3,995 | #77 | 21 | #2,360 |
| 1978 | 4,005 | #69 | 13 | #3,194 |
| 1977 | 4,373 | #61 | 34 | #1,638 |
| 1976 | 4,861 | #59 | 34 | #1,601 |
| 1975 | 5,374 | #51 | 33 | #1,588 |
| 1974 | 6,270 | #44 | 23 | #1,969 |
| 1973 | 6,585 | #39 | 42 | #1,290 |
| 1972 | 7,917 | #31 | 37 | #1,409 |
| 1971 | 9,714 | #31 | 39 | #1,373 |
| 1970 | 11,246 | #27 | 54 | #1,128 |
| 1969 | 12,185 | #25 | 44 | #1,197 |
| 1968 | 12,686 | #26 | 40 | #1,213 |
| 1967 | 14,738 | #20 | 47 | #1,083 |
| 1966 | 15,851 | #17 | 53 | #1,006 |
| 1965 | 16,371 | #15 | 52 | #1,030 |
| 1964 | 19,249 | #13 | 76 | #878 |
| 1963 | 21,621 | #9 | 60 | #982 |
| 1962 | 22,420 | #10 | 64 | #950 |
| 1961 | 24,153 | #9 | 67 | #938 |
| 1960 | 24,572 | #11 | 60 | #995 |
| 1959 | 23,359 | #13 | 55 | #1,047 |
| 1958 | 21,834 | #15 | 57 | #1,014 |
| 1957 | 22,765 | #15 | 57 | #1,012 |
| 1956 | 24,302 | #14 | 42 | #1,187 |
| 1955 | 25,112 | #13 | 51 | #1,063 |
| 1954 | 26,061 | #13 | 42 | #1,167 |
| 1953 | 25,500 | #11 | 44 | #1,118 |
| 1952 | 26,097 | #10 | 41 | #1,163 |
| 1951 | 27,665 | #9 | 45 | #1,081 |
| 1950 | 28,896 | #8 | 46 | #1,050 |
| 1949 | 30,643 | #6 | 58 | #910 |
| 1948 | 31,063 | #6 | 60 | #887 |
| 1947 | 34,779 | #5 | 73 | #814 |
| 1946 | 31,692 | #6 | 76 | #766 |
| 1945 | 24,700 | #6 | 75 | #706 |
| 1944 | 26,024 | #6 | 77 | #711 |
| 1943 | 25,990 | #6 | 105 | #619 |
| 1942 | 24,994 | #6 | 76 | #739 |
| 1941 | 19,500 | #9 | 71 | #737 |
| 1940 | 16,153 | #10 | 49 | #917 |
| 1939 | 11,970 | #13 | 42 | #989 |
| 1938 | 10,806 | #14 | 45 | #947 |
| 1937 | 7,520 | #26 | 34 | #1,144 |
| 1936 | 5,526 | #38 | 22 | #1,455 |
| 1935 | 4,089 | #50 | 16 | #1,825 |
| 1934 | 2,550 | #93 | 12 | #2,241 |
| 1933 | 1,365 | #145 | 5 | #4,074 |
| 1932 | 822 | #216 | — | — |
| 1931 | 453 | #297 | — | — |
| 1930 | 298 | #392 | — | — |
| 1929 | 253 | #420 | — | — |
| 1928 | 235 | #444 | — | — |
| 1927 | 207 | #487 | — | — |
| 1926 | 171 | #534 | — | — |
| 1925 | 177 | #539 | — | — |
| 1924 | 145 | #625 | — | — |
| 1923 | 110 | #700 | — | — |
| 1922 | 97 | #740 | — | — |
| 1921 | 120 | #677 | — | — |
| 1920 | 112 | #689 | — | — |
| 1919 | 86 | #761 | — | — |
| 1918 | 72 | #850 | — | — |
| 1917 | 63 | #877 | — | — |
| 1916 | 43 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1915 | 49 | #956 | — | — |
| 1914 | 40 | #939 | — | — |
| 1913 | 36 | #899 | — | — |
| 1912 | 20 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 1911 | 15 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,752 | — | — |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,498 | — | — |
| 1908 | 15 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,346 | — | — |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,189 | — | — |
| 1904 | 8 | #1,462 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).