Sandra

A short form of Alexandra and, less often, of Cassandra.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsandɹə/, /ˈsɑːndɹə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsændɹə/

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• Rhymes: -ændɹə

Sandra (plural Sandras)

1. A female given name.
   • 1971, Hugh Hood, The Fruit Man, the Meat Man & the Manager: Stories, Oberon Press, published 1971, page 23:

     "Sandra, that's no name for anybody; that was a name for movie stars around 1948. Nobody's used it since. But the fact is, her name really is Sandra. - - - In the mills towns like Torrington and Bristol, the Italians might very well call a girl Sandra for real. Straight. It's just short for Alessandra. Alexandra. So she has numerous choices - she can be Sandy, a clean-cut WASP, or she can be Renaissance Alessandra, or movie-star Sandra, or old-fashioned Edwardian Alexandra, all on the one name."

   • 2012 March 7, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, “Women's Access to Health Care”, in Congressional Record‎^[1], page H1218:

     A young law student, Sandra Fluke, came before this body, before the Members of Congress, and testified regarding coverage for family planning and contraceptives.

• Popular in the Anglophone world from the 1940s to the 1960s.

• NARSAD, Randas, nasard, sandar, sardan

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• IPA^(key): [ˈsandra]

Sandra f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Sandra

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Sandra

1. a female given name, short for Alexandra

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Sandra f

1. a female given name

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Sandra

1. a female given name, short for Aleksandra

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Sandra f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Sandra

Matronymics

• son of Sandra: Sandruson
• daughter of Sandra: Sandrudóttir

Shortened from Aleksandra after foreign examples.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑndrɑ/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝n.drɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑndrɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Sand‧ra
• Hyphenation^(key): Sand‧ra

Sandra

1. a female given name

• Sandra is the 245^th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 2,185 female individuals (and as a middle name to 480 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

Clipping of Alexandra.

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃.dʁa/

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Sandra f

1. a female given name, short form of Alexandra

• Sandrine

Borrowed from Italian Sandra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈzandʁa/

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Sandra f (proper noun, genitive Sandras or (with an article) Sandra, masculine Sandro)

1. a female given name from Italian, popular in Germany around 1965 – 1990, equivalent to English Sandra

Sandra f (proper noun, genitive singular Söndru)

1. a female given name

Diminutive of Alessandra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsan.dra/
• Rhymes: -andra
• Hyphenation: Sàn‧dra

Sandra f

1. a female given name

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1937. From Aleksandra.

Sandra f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Sandra

• Sanda

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• [2] Population Register of Latvia: Sandra was the only given name of 8496 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Sandra f

1. a female given name

Short form of Alexandra. First used as a given name in the end of the 19th century.

Sandra

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Sandra

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃dɾɐ
• Hyphenation: San‧dra

Sandra f (plural Sandras, masculine Sandro, masculine plural Sandros)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Sandra

• IPA^(key): /sâːndra/

Sȃndra f (Cyrillic spelling Са̑ндра)

1. a female given name

• “Sandra”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2025

Borrowed from Italian Sandra, short form of Alessandra, from Ancient Greek Ἀλεξάνδρα (Alexándra). Compare Spanish Alejandra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsandɾa/ [ˈsãn̪.d̪ɾa]
• Rhymes: -andɾa
• Syllabification: San‧dra

Sandra f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Sandra

A short form of Alexandra. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1871.

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Sandra c (genitive Sandras)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Sandra

• andars, andras, dansar, sandar