Popularity of the name Sandra, 1904–2025

Sandra was at its most popular in 1946, when 31,692 girls were given the name: about 1 in 50 girls born in the U.S. that year, ranking #6. In 2025, 188 girls were named Sandra, ranking #1,207. In all, Social Security counts 875,531 girls named Sandra since 1904. Social Security’s records also list 2,692 boys named Sandra.

Peak year

1946

Rank in 1946

#6

Babies in 1946

31,692

Rank in 2025

#1,207

Total since 1904

875,531

Where it stands now

In the past decade the name slipped from #829 in 2015 to #1,207 in 2025: 338 girls got it in 2015, and 188 in 2025.

Decade by decade

Its best decade was the 1940s, when 265,538 girls were named Sandra, #6 for the decade. It ranked #1,783 in the 1900s and #1,080 in the 2020s so far.

Every 20 years in the records: 112 in 1920 (#687), 16,153 in 1940 (#10), 24,572 in 1960 (#11), 4,002 in 1980 (#80), 1,268 in 2000 (#257) and 222 in 2020 (#1,099).

Highs and lows

The most girls given the name in a single year was 34,779, in 1947. That is not its peak year: Social Security’s records hold more girls for 1947 than for 1946, so the name’s share of births was smaller. Its best rank in any year was #5, first reached in 1947.

Every year

The table lists every year from 1904 to 2025 in which Social Security recorded at least 5 girls named Sandra, with the name’s rank that year.

How these numbers are counted

Social Security publishes, for every year since 1880, how many babies of each sex were given each name, counting any name given to at least 5. A name’s rank is its place that year among names for the same sex, by number of babies. Names with the same count share a rank here, while Social Security’s own lists break ties alphabetically, so a rank can differ from theirs by a place or two. A name’s share is the number of babies given it divided by all babies of that sex in the data that year, and its peak is the year that share was highest. Shares rather than counts set the peak, because far more babies were born in some years than others: counting babies alone would pull nearly every name’s peak toward the 1946–1964 baby boom.

Source: the U.S. Social Security Administration’s national baby name data, from Social Security card applications for babies born in the U.S. A name is left out of a year when fewer than 5 babies of one sex got it, and counts before about 1937 are incomplete, because many people born then never applied for a card. See how Baby Boom builds its data. Figures may contain errors.