girls:
875.1k births since 1904
#19 (100th percentile)
boys:
2.7k births since 1933
#2430 (47th percentile)
overall:
877.8k births since 1904
#54 (99th percentile)
The name Sandra is the #54 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 877,775 recorded births since 1904. This represents the 99.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 99.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #19 (99.7% percentile) for all time with 875,083 births since 1904. For boys, it ranks #2,430 (47.0% percentile) for all time with 2,692 births since 1933.
Sandra first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1904 (1904 for girls and 1933 for boys).
The name Sandra has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Sandra reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 99.4% percentile (ranked #5) with 19,132 births per million. The name was most common in 1946, with 19,650 births per million (ranked 99.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1963, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Sandra ranks #720 for girls (24.0% percentile) with 133 births per million, which is 0.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Sandra reached its peak popularity in 1943, achieving the 17.6% percentile (ranked #469) with 72 births per million. The name was most common in 1943, with 72 births per million (ranked 17.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sandra".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Sandra. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Sandra is pronounced as SAN-druh, which has 2 syllables.
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