Sandra
Sandra is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 240 births. Its best rank was 5th, in 1947.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2400.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 194734,779 births
- Best rank
- #5in 1947
- Since 1904
- 878,026people given the name
The story in the numbers
875,334 girls have been named Sandra in the United States since 1904, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 34,779 births — 2.0% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 240 births in 2024, against 34,779 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1954, and the 1940s alone account for 30%. It has spent 107 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 51 of them in the top 100 and 16 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,692 boys have also been given it, 0.31% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Sandra | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 48 | |
| 1910s | 433 | |
| 1920s | 1,627 | |
| 1930s | 45,399 | |
| 1940s | 265,536 | |
| 1950s | 251,594 | |
| 1960s | 183,844 | |
| 1970s | 64,337 | |
| 1980s | 30,046 | |
| 1990s | 17,620 | |
| 2000s | 9,991 | |
| 2010s | 3,671 | |
| 2020s | 1,188 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Sandra was the 5th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1947 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Barbara and Sandra. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Sandra
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sharonpeak 1947
- Karonpeak 1948
- Sharanpeak 1947
- Paulettapeak 1948
- Karylpeak 1944
- Sheronpeak 1947
- Sharolpeak 1949
- Merrileepeak 1942
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.