English

Proper noun

Sandra ‎(plural Sandras)

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

Usage notes

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

Anagrams

• NARSAD

Czech

Proper noun

Sandra f

1. A female given name, cognate to English Sandra.

Danish

Proper noun

Sandra

1. A female given name, short for Alexandra.

Estonian

Proper noun

Sandra

1. A female given name, short for Aleksandra.

Faroese

Proper noun

Sandra f

1. A female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

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

Declension

French

Proper noun

Sandra

1. A female given name, short form of Alexandra.

Related terms

• Sandrine

German

Etymology

From Italian Sandra, reinforced by the English name Sandra.

Proper noun

Sandra

1. A female given name.

Usage notes

• Popular in Germany around 1970 - 1990.

Italian

Proper noun

Sandra f

1. A female given name, short form of Alessandra.

Latvian

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Sandra f

1. A female given name.

Related terms

• Sanda

References

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, ISBN 5-7966-0278-0
• Population Register of Latvia: Sandra was the only given name of 8496 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Norwegian

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Sandra

1. A female given name.

Portuguese

Proper noun

Sandra f

1. A female given name
2. diminutive form of female given name Alessandra

Spanish

Etymology

From the Italian short form of Alessandra. Compare Spanish Alejandra.

Proper noun

Sandra ‎(f)

1. A female given name.

Swedish

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Sandra

1. A female given name.

Italian

Noun

sandra f ‎(plural sandre)

1. zander

Synonyms

• lucioperca