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Sandra vs Sandria

American parents have registered 878,223 Sandras since 1880, against 655 Sandrias. Sandra is still ahead, with 188 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Sandra against Sandria, 1880 to 2025 0 10k 20k 30k 40k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Sandra Sandria

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Sandra has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1904 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Sandra had 473 and Sandria had 6.

Side by side

  Sandra Sandria
Total US births 878,223655
Most in one year 34,85226
Babies in 2025 188under 5
Estimated living today 659,000550
Median age today 6853
Peak year 19471947
Best rank 5th girls1,897th girls
Rank in 2025 1,207thunranked
First recorded 19041937
Girls / boys 875,531 / 2,692655 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Sandras alive today are over 68; half the Sandrias are over 53. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Sandra and Sandria.